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En este episodio de Mas Que Raras, tenemos el honor de conversar con la Dra. Manuela Ochoa-Urrea, quien está realizando su residencia en neurología de enfermedades raras en la Universidad de Texas Health. Originaria de Medellín, Colombia, Manuela es una doctora excepcional, llena de talento y humanidad. En esta charla, nos comparte su trabajo en Texas y enfatiza la necesidad y la importancia de incluir a toda la población en la investigación de enfermedades raras. Además, Manuela ofrece valiosos consejos para aquellos que deseen seguir sus pasos, inspirándonos con su pasión y creatividad.   Más información:    Centro multidisciplinario para CACNA1A: https://www.utphysicians.com/multidisciplinary-center-for-cacna1a-related-disorders/ Programa de Especialización en Epilepsia Genética GATOR1: https://www.utphysicians.com/gator1-epilepsy-specialty-program/ Subscribete: Mas Que Raras Podcast   Connect with BloodStream Media: BloodStreamMedia.com BloodStream on Facebook BloodStream on Twitter  

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello wail about the attack on science within the US, cancellation of CDC's committee on infectious diseases, mpox in Sierra Leone, “bird flu” in cats, the ongoing measles outbreak globally, before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, benefits of vaccination for infants, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections the WasterwaterScan dashboard, the high number of childhood deaths during this “flu” season, the May 22 VRBPAC COVID-19 vaccine meeting, where to find PEMGARDA, benefit of remedesivir, provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center's long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, weight and distinct symptoms of long COVID and contacting your federal government representative to stop the assault on science and biomedical research. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Shut down federal advisory committee on infection prevention…..Make America Healthy Again! (CIDRAP) Mpox in Sierra Leone (CIDRAP) H5 Bird Flu: Current Situation (CDC: Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) ) Spike in avian flu cases in cats : spillover into humans? (CIDRAP) Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Rubeola) Measles 800 in Texas…. (Texas Health and Human Services) Measles outbreak in North Dakota prompts local health officials to quarantine unvaccinated schoolchildren (CNN) 2025 Measles outbreak guidance (New Mexico Health) Measles and rubella weekly monitoring report: (Government of Canada) The Mennonites in a Texas community where measles is spreading (AP News) Trust the government? Seriously! West Texans, Mennonites at center of measles outbreak choose medical freedom over vaccine mandates (AP News) Measles vaccine recommendations from NYP (jpg)  Deporting Measles! (AP News) Get the FACTS about measles (NY State Department of Health) Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola)) Measles vaccine (CDC Measles (Rubeola)) Presumptive evidence of measles immunity (CDC) Contraindications and precautions to measles vaccination (CDC) Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola)) Measles (CDC: Measles Rubeola) Adverse events associated with childhood vaccines: evidence bearing on causality (NLM) Measles Vaccination: Know the Facts (ISDA: Infectious Diseases Society of America) Deaths following vaccination: what does the evidence show (Vaccine) Influenza: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView) Respiratory virus activity levels (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) CDC reports 216 child deaths this flu season (AP News) Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView) New York sees highest flu-related pediatric deaths ever recorded in a season (Times Union) Phase 3 Safety and Efficacy Study of Baloxavir Marboxil in Children Less Than 1 Year Old With Suspected or Confirmed Influenza (The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal) FDA-CDC-DOD: 2025-2046 influenza vaccine composition (FDA) RSV: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection) Interim Evaluation of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Hospitalization Rates Among Infants and Young Children After Introduction of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Prevention Products (CDC: MMWR) US infant mortality dropped in 2024: RSV vaccine? (AP News) Infant Mortality Dashboard (CDC: National Center for Health Statistics) Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) COVID-19 deaths (CDC) COVID-19 national and regional trends (CDC) Wastewater Measures of SARS-CoV-2 Accurately Predict Frequency of Symptomatic Infections in the Community (JID) Origin of SARS-CoV-2 The recency and geographical origins of the bat viruses ancestral to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 (Cell) COVID-19 variant tracker (CDC) SARS-CoV-2 genomes galore (Nextstrain) COVID-19 infection history as a risk factor for early pregnancy loss (BMC Medicine) New recommendations seek treatments for post-Lyme disease condition (CIDRAP) Immunogenicity and Safety of Influenza and COVID-19 Multicomponent Vaccine in Adults ≥50 YearsA Randomized Clinical Trial (JAMA) Combo flu-COVID vaccine shows good immune response, safety in older adults (CIDRAP) US FDA advisers to discuss COVID-19 vaccine recommendations on May 22 (Reuters) Interim Clinical Considerations for Use of COVID-19 Vaccines in the United States (CDC: COVID-19) COVID-19 vaccine VRBPAC May 22 (FDA) Where to get pemgarda (Pemgarda) EUA for the pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 (INVIYD) Infusion center (Prime Fusions) CDC Quarantine guidelines (CDC) NIH COVID-19 treatment guidelines (NIH) Drug interaction checker (University of Liverpool) Infectious Disease Society guidelines for treatment and management (ID Society) Molnupiravir safety and efficacy (JMV) Convalescent plasma recommendation for immunocompromised (ID Society) What to do when sick with a respiratory virus (CDC) When your healthcare provider is infected/exposed with SARS-CoV-2 (CDC) Managing healthcare staffing shortages (CDC) Steroids,dexamethasone at the right time (OFID) Anticoagulation guidelines (hematology.org) Remdesivir associated with reduced mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients (BMC Infectious Diseases) Real-world evidence shows remdesivir tied to less death in hospitalized COVID patients (CIDRAP) Daniel Griffin's evidence based medical practices for long COVID (OFID) Long COVID hotline (Columbia : Columbia University Irving Medical Center) The answers: Long COVID Excess weight is associated withneurological and neuropsychiatric symptoms in post-COVID-19 condition (PLoS One) Identification of soluble biomarkers that associate with distinct manifestations of long COVID (Nature Immunology) Reaching out to US house representative Letters read on TWiV 1218 Dr. Griffin's COVID treatment summary (pdf) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your questions for Dr. Griffin to daniel@microbe.tv Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello bemoan the attack on science within the US, salt water controls for vaccines, return to 1938 technology for flu vaccines, mRNA vaccines as “bioweapons”, rise in pertussis, benefits of the shingles vaccine and reduced dementia occurrence, and growing measles outbreak globally before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the WasterwaterScan dashboard, the May 22 VRBPAC COVID-19 vaccine,  meeting, where to find PEMGARDA, return to antibiotic treatment for respiratory viral diseases, provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center's long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions and contacting your federal government representative to stop the assault on science and biomedical research. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Saline placebo control testing for new vaccines….not good chemistry! (Washington Post) 1940s innovation: HHS, NIH Launch Next-Generation Universal Vaccine Platform for Pandemic-Prone Viruses(US Department of Health and Human Services) WHAT! Minnesota Bill Against Vaccines Promotes Disinformation (Medscape Medical News) ) Guns= fine….mRNA =mRNA Bioweapons Prohibition Act; mRNA injections and products designated as weapons of mass destruction, and mRNA injections and products prohibited. (Minnesota Legislature) Bioweapons of massive destruction mNRA not bombs or drones….but mRNA! (Minnesota Legislature) 2024 Provisional pertussis surveillance report (CDC) Pertussis cases by year 1922-2023 (CDC: Whooping cough (pertussis)) Deaths by pertussis: 6 children under a year old (CDC) Pertussis (WHO) Symptoms of pertussis (CDC Whooping Cough (Pertussis) With whooping cough cases on the rise, a doctor explains how to protect yourself and others (CNN) Live zoster vaccination and cardiovascular outcomes (European Heath Journal) Shingles vaccine recipients see lower cardiac event risk (CIDRAP) H5 Bird Flu: Current Situation (CDC: Avian Influenza Bird flu) Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Rubeola) Measles 800 in Texas…. (Texas Health and Human Services) 2025 Measles outbreak guidance (New Mexico Health) Measles and rubella weekly monitoring report: (Government of Canada) Measles vaccine recommendations from NYP (jpg)  Get the FACTS about measles (NY State Department of Health) Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola)) Measles vaccine (CDC Measles (Rubeola)) Presumptive evidence of measles immunity (CDC) Contraindications and precautions to measles vaccination (CDC) Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola)) Measles (CDC: Measles Rubeola) Adverse events associated with childhood vaccines: evidence bearing on causality (NLM) Measles Vaccination: Know the Facts (ISDA: Infectious Diseases Society of America) Deaths following vaccination: what does the evidence show (Vaccine) Influenza: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView) Respiratory virus activity levels (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) CDC reports 216 child deaths this flu season (AP News) Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView) FDA-CDC-DOD: 2025-2046 influenza vaccine composition (FDA) RSV: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection) Impact of Nirsevimab on RSV and Non-RSV Severe Respiratory Infections in Hospitalized Infants (Influenza and other respiratory viruses) Hospital admissions of respiratory infections in infants plunge with nirsevimab RSV antibody(CIDRAP) Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) COVID-19 deaths (CDC) COVID-19 national and regional trends (CDC) COVID-19 variant tracker (CDC) SARS-CoV-2 genomes galore (Nextstrain) Early effectiveness of the BNT162b2 KP.2 vaccine against COVID-19 in the US Veterans Affairs Healthcare System (Nature Commications) Interim Clinical Considerations for Use of COVID-19 Vaccines in the United States (CDC: COVID-19) COVID-19 vaccine VRBPAC May 22 (FDA) Where to get pemgarda (Pemgarda) EUA for the pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 (INVIYD) Infusion center (Prime Fusions) CDC Quarantine guidelines (CDC) NIH COVID-19 treatment guidelines (NIH) Drug interaction checker (University of Liverpool) Infectious Disease Society guidelines for treatment and management (ID Society) Time to antiviral treatment in mild–moderate COVID-19 in the emergency department(Internal and Emergency Medicine) Delays in COVID antiviral receipt raised risk of poor outcomes after ED visits by 18%, data suggest(CIDRAP) Molnupiravir safety and efficacy (JMV) Convalescent plasma recommendation for immunocompromised (ID Society) What to do when sick with a respiratory virus (CDC) When your healthcare provider is infected/exposed with SARS-CoV-2 (CDC) Managing healthcare staffing shortages (CDC) Virus = Bacteria ? National Trends in Antibiotic Prescribing for Adults Hospitalized With Coronavirus Disease 2019 and Other Viral Respiratory Infections (OFID) Steroids, dexamethasone at the right time (OFD) Anticoagulation guidelines (hematology.org) Daniel Griffin's evidence based medical practices for long COVID (OFID) Long COVID hotline (Columbia : Columbia University Irving Medical Center) The answers: Long COVID Short and long-term trajectories of the post COVID-19 condition (BMJ Infectious Diseases) Prevalence of Persistent Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Abnormalities on PET/MRI and DECT Imaging in Long COVID Patients (Journal of Nuclear Medicine) Long-COVID patients show signs of inflammation on PET/ MRI scans(CIDRAP) Reaching out to US house representative Letters read on TWiV 1216 Dr. Griffin's COVID treatment summary (pdf) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your questions for Dr. Griffin to daniel@microbe.tv Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

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In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello bewail the attack on science within the US and withdrawal from the global health communities, association between the shingles vaccine and reduced dementia occurrence, ending of Uganda's ebola outbreak, undermining effective responses to human bird flu infections, growing measles outbreak in the US and dire predictions of the return of vaccine preventable diseases including polio if vaccination rates continue to decline, before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections the WasterwaterScan dashboard, how HHS is undermining the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine, if Paxlovid reduces stroke, where to find PEMGARDA, provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center's long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions and contacting your federal government representative to stop the assault on science and biomedical research. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Lab animal RIFFing (NY Times) Herpes zoster vaccination and dementia occurrence(JAMA) The recombinant shingles vaccine is associated with lower risk of dementia (Nature Medicine) Uganda declares end to latest ebola outbreak (Reuters) Enhancing the response to avian influenza in the US and globally (LANCET: Regional Health-Americas) H5 Bird Flu: Current Situation (CDC: Avian Influenza Bird flu) Measles Update — United States, January 1–April 17, 2025 (CDC: MMWR) Measles in Europe……..but greater in the US (CIDRAP) Measles – Annual Epidemiological Report for 2024 (ECDC: European Center for Disease Prevention and Control) Measles (ECDC: European Center for Disease Prevention and Control) Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Rubeola) Measles 800 in Texas…. (Texas Health and Human Services) 2025 Measles outbreak guidance (New Mexico Health) On the precipice of disaster': Measles may be endemic in 25 years if vaccine uptake stays low, model predicts (CIDRAP) Modeling Reemergence of Vaccine-Eliminated Infectious Diseases Under Declining Vaccination in the US (JAMA) Measles vaccine recommendations from NYP (jpg)  Get the FACTS about measles (NY State Department of Health) Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola)) Measles vaccine (CDC Measles (Rubeola)) Presumptive evidence of measles immunity (CDC) Contraindications and precautions to measles vaccination (CDC) Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola)) Measles (CDC: Measles Rubeola) Adverse events associated with childhood vaccines: evidence bearing on causality (NLM) Measles Vaccination: Know the Facts(ISDA: Infectious Diseases Society of America) Deaths following vaccination: what does the evidence show (Vaccine) Influenza: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView) Respiratory virus activity levels (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) 200 children die from flu (CIDRAP) Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView) FDA-CDC-DOD: 2025-2046 influenza vaccine composition (FDA) RSV: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection) Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) COVID-19 deaths (CDC) COVID-19 national and regional trends (CDC) COVID-19 variant tracker (CDC) SARS-CoV-2 genomes galore (Nextstrain) Health secretary RFK Jr. declares certain vaccines have ‘never worked,' flummoxing scientists…..what certain vaccines?(STAT News) More FDA uncertainty roils full approval for Novavax COVID vaccine (CIDRAP) FDA Punts on Major Covid-19 Vaccine Decision After Ouster of Top Official (WSJ) U.S. health officials inject new uncertainty into approval process for Covid boosters (STAT News) Interim Clinical Considerations for Use of COVID-19 Vaccines in the United States (CDC: COVID-19) Where to get pemgarda (Pemgarda) EUA for the pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 (INVIYD) Infusion center (Prime Fusions) CDC Quarantine guidelines (CDC) NIH COVID-19 treatment guidelines (NIH) Drug interaction checker (University of Liverpool) Infectious Disease Society guidelines for treatment and management (ID Society) Molnupiravir safety and efficacy (JMV) Convalescent plasma recommendation for immunocompromised (ID Society What to do when sick with a respiratory virus (CDC) When your healthcare provider is infected/exposed with SARS-CoV-2 (CDC) Managing healthcare staffing shortages (CDC) Steroids, dexamethasone at the right time (OFID) Anticoagulation guidelines (hematology.org) Into the Unknown: Practical Remdesivir Restriction in the Era of Widespread SARS-CoV-2 Seropositivity (CID) Tocilizumab and IVIG experience during the service follow-up in patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia(Rev Insti MedTrop Sao Paulo) Daniel Griffin's evidence based medical practices for long COVID (OFID) Long COVID hotline (Columbia : Columbia University Irving Medical Center) The answers: Long COVID Risk of New-Onset Type 2 Diabetes Among Vaccinated Adults After Omicron or Delta Variant SARS-CoV-2 Infection(JAMA) Reaching out to US house representative Letters read on TWiV 1214 Dr. Griffin's COVID treatment summary (pdf) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your questions for Dr. Griffin to daniel@microbe.tv Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello deplore the US's withdrawal from the global health community for pandemic preparedness i.e. the universal avian flu vaccine, and undermining the use of routine childhood vaccinations for pertussis and measles, RFK's autism registry, yellow fever outbreak in Colombia and world immunization week after discussing the squirrel as the reservoir host for mpox, before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections the WasterwaterScan dashboard, how immunity elicited by the RSV vaccine wanes in 3 years, if Paxlovid reduces stroke, where to find PEMGARDA, provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center's long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, if vaccination impacts long COVID and if long COVID were to become epidemic. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode The American Public's Disengagement With Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI): Considerations for Vaccination and Dietary Changes(American Public Health Association) New agreement geared toward universal avian flu vaccine (CIDRAP) Cambridge's DIOSynVax and Singapore's ACM Biolabs to advance pandemic-ready universal bird flu vaccine with international support (GlobeNewswire) Bird flu continues to spread among live poultry markets after shut down order  (CRAIN'S New York Business) Fire-footed rope squirrels (Funisciurus pyrropus) are a reservoir host of monkeypox virus (Orthopoxvirus monkeypox)(Research Square) It is a squirrel! An animal source of mpox emerges(Nature) Whooping cough spikes, especially among unvaccinated teens (NBC News) A February flu surge has arrived (NCB News) Pertussis Cases by Year (1922-2022)(CDC: Whooping cough (pertussis))) ‘Fighting to breathe': Whooping cough surges as vaccination rate falters (NBC News) CDC cancels measles help for Texas schools amid staff layoffs (HealthDay) Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Rubeola) Measles in Texas…. (Texas Health and Human Services) Measles vaccine recommendations from NYP (jpg)  2025 Measles outbreak guidance (New Mexico Health) Get the FACTS about measles (NY State Department of Health) Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola)) Measles vaccine (CDC Measles (Rubeola)) Presumptive evidence of measles immunity (CDC) Contraindications and precautions to measles vaccination (CDC) Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola)) Measles (CDC: Measles Rubeola) Adverse events associated with childhood vaccines: evidence bearing on causality (NLM) Measles Vaccination: Know the Facts(ISDA: Infectious Diseases Society of America) Deaths following vaccination: what does the evidence show (Vaccine) RFK Jr.'s autism registry plan (Axios) RFK Jr's autism study collecting Americans' private medical records (Guardian) The public's views on measles outbreaks and misinformation (KFF)  Colombia National Emergency: yellow fever cases (Gov.Co) World Immunization Week: polio eradiation?(GPEI) Influenza: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView) Respiratory virus activity levels (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) 200 children die from flu (CIDRAP) Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView) FDA-CDC-DOD: 2025-2046 influenza vaccine composition (FDA) RSV: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection) Trial shows waning efficacy of RSV vaccine across 3 seasons in older adults(CIDRAP) Efficacy, safety, and immunogenicity of the AS01E-adjuvanted respiratory syncytial virus prefusion F protein vaccine (RSVPreF3 OA) (LANCET: Respiratory Medicine) Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) COVID-19 deaths (CDC) COVID-19 national and regional trends (CDC) COVID-19 variant tracker (CDC) SARS-CoV-2 genomes galore (Nextstrain) Where to get pemgarda (Pemgarda) EUA for the pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 (INVIYD) Infusion center (Prime Fusions) CDC Quarantine guidelines (CDC) NIH COVID-19 treatment guidelines (NIH) Drug interaction checker (University of Liverpool) Long-term stroke and mortality risk reduction associated with acute-phase paxlovid use in mild-to-moderate COVID-19(Journal of Medical Virology) Infectious Disease Society guidelines for treatment and management (ID Society) Molnupiravir safety and efficacy (JMV) Convalescent plasma recommendation for immunocompromised (ID Society) What to do when sick with a respiratory virus (CDC) When your healthcare provider is infected/exposed with SARS-CoV-2 (CDC) Managing healthcare staffing shortages (CDC) Steroids, dexamethasone at the right time (OFID) Anticoagulation guidelines (hematology.org) Daniel Griffin's evidence based medical practices for long COVID (OFID) Long COVID hotline (Columbia : Columbia University Irving Medical Center) The answers: Long COVID The effect of COVID-19 vaccination on the risk of persistent post–COVID-19 condition (JID) ORCHESTRA Delphi consensus: diagnostic and therapeutic management of Post-COVID-19 condition in vulnerable populations (CMI Clinical Microbiology and Infection) Political ideology and trust in scientists in the USA(Nature Human Behavior) Leading long COVID researcher fears it could become a national epidemic (Spectrum News NY1) Center for post COVID care (Mt. Sinai) Reaching out to US house representative Letters read on TWiV 1212 Dr. Griffin's COVID treatment summary (pdf) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your questions for Dr. Griffin to daniel@microbe.tv Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

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In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello rue about the continuation of the gutting of the American public health infrastructure, the continuing measles outbreak, an unreported outbreak of deadly E.coli human infections, meningococcal disease before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the WasterwaterScan dashboard, ACIP recommended changes in guidelines for the RSV and COVID-19 vaccines, reactogenicity differences between Novavax and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines, where to find PEMGARDA, provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center's long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, long COVID interventions, effects of long COVID in children and adolescents and a list of ongoing clinical trials for long COVID treatment. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Making America Healthy Again-purging of administrators at HHS (Politico) Making America Healthy Again-purging of data (Politico) Deep cuts of the federal government (NY Times) Cutting NIH, CDC and HHS promotes chronic disease research(Washington Post) Political ideology and trust in scientists in the USA(Nature Human Behavior) US political conservatives have deep, unbudging suspicion of science, survey suggests(CIDRAP) A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it(NBC News) Invasive meningococcal disease – Kingdom of Saudi Arabia(WHO) The essential guide to understanding the differences between hajj and umrah (Marhabahaji) Measles Vaccination: Know the Facts(ISDA: Infectious Diseases Society of America) Measles booster? (Washington Post) How to stop an outbreak…….fire the experts (Washington Post) Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Rubeola) Measles 159 in Texas…. (Texas Health and Human Services) 2025 Measles outbreak guidance (New Mexico Health) Measles and rubella weekly monitoring (Government of Canada) Measles vaccine recommendations from NYP (jpg) NAFMA: North American Free Measles agreement…..(NY Times) Get the FACTS about measles (NY State Department of Health) Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola)) Measles vaccine (CDC Measles (Rubeola)) Presumptive evidence of measles immunity (CDC) Contraindications and precautions to measles vaccination (CDC) Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola)) Doctors' talk measles (YouTube) Measles (CDC: Measles Rubeola) Adverse events associated with childhood vaccines: evidence bearing on causality (NLM) Measles Vaccination: Know the Facts(ISDA: Infectious Diseases Society of America) Deaths following vaccination: what does the evidence show (Vaccine) Influenza: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView) Respiratory virus activity levels (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) 200 children die from flu (CIDRAP) Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView) FDA-CDC-DOD: 2025-2046 influenza vaccine composition (FDA) RSV: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection) ACIP votes to expand recommendation for Pfizer'sRSV vaccine Abrysvo® to include adults aged 50 to 59 at increased risk of disease (Pfizer) Respiratory syncytial virus and incidence of cardiovascular events: a nationwide self-controlled case series analysis (JACC Journals) Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) COVID-19 deaths (CDC) COVID-19 national and regional trends (CDC) COVID-19 variant tracker (CDC) SARS-CoV-2 genomes galore (Nextstrain) Comorbidities associated with different degrees of severity in children and young people hospitalized with acute COVID-19 (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal) SHIELD-Utah study shows Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine induces lower reactogenicity symptoms compared to mRNA (Novavax) Interim clinical considerations for use of COVID-19 vaccines in the United States (CDC Vaccines & Immunizations) Novavax says its COVID vaccine produces fewer, milder reactions than Pfizer version(CIDRAP) US CDC advisers discuss narrower use of COVID-19 vaccines (Reuters) Where to get pemgarda (Pemgarda) EUA for the pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 (INVIYD) Fusion center (Prime Fusions) CDC Quarantine guidelines (CDC) NIH COVID-19 treatment guidelines (NIH) Drug interaction checker (University of Liverpool) Infectious Disease Society guidelines for treatment and management (ID Society) Molnupiravir safety and efficacy (JMV) Convalescent plasma recommendation for immunocompromised (ID Society) What to do when sick with a respiratory virus (CDC) When your healthcare provider is infected/exposed with SARS-CoV-2 (CDC) Managing healthcare staffing shortages (CDC) Steroids, dexamethasone at the right time (OFID) Anticoagulation guidelines (hematology.org) Daniel Griffin's evidence based medical practices for long COVID (OFID) Long COVID hotline (Columbia : Columbia University Irving Medical Center) The answers: Long COVID Kidney Function following COVID-19 in children and adolescents(JAMA Network Open) Cardiovascular post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 in children and adolescents: cohort study using electronic health records(Nature Communications) Great barrington declaration (gbdeclaration.org) Clinical trials: Effectiveness of transcranial direct current in patients with persistent COVID-19 with headaches and chronic pain. Home-based Brain Stimulation Treatment for Post-acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) Acupuncture for post COVID-19 Condition (Long COVID) neuropsychiatric symptoms Pain relief with integrative medicine (prime)?: feasibility of acupuncture for long COVID Electro-acupuncture for long COVID neuropsychiatric symptoms Randomised study to investigate the effectiveness of acupuncture for the relief of long COIVD-19 related fatigue (ACU-COVID) Vagus stimulation in female long COVID patients.(Vagus) Stellate ganglion block with lidocaine for the treatment of COVID-19-induced parosmia (Stella) Therapeutic updates on long COVID: Where things stand 5 years later (ID Society) Reaching out to US house representative Letters read on TWiV 1210 Dr. Griffin's COVID treatment summary (pdf) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your questions for Dr. Griffin to daniel@microbe.tv Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello mourn the demise of vaccination against childhood diseases when discussing the continuing measles outbreak and the rise of pertussis, the first human case of H5N1 in Mexico, and human metapneumovirus before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections and vaccination schedules, the WasterwaterScan dashboard, where to find PEMGARDA, provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center's long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, long COVID interventions, if antiviral therapy prevents long COVID and how long COVID may affect brain volume. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia (Nature) Taking a shot at dementia (microbeTV: TWiV) RFK Jr. visits Texas after second child dies of measles amid outbreak (Washington Post) Kennedy Attends Funeral of Texas Girl Who Died of Measles(NY Times) ‘Most effective way' to prevent measles is vaccination, RFK Jr. says, in most direct remarks yet (STAT News) Fort Bliss…..Fort measles: Beaumont Army hospital confirms measles case at Fort Bliss(KTSM News) Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Rubeola) Measles 159 in Texas…. (Texas Health and Human Services) Measles vaccine recommendations from NYP (jpg) 2025 Measles outbreak guidance (New Mexico Health) Get the FACTS about measles (NY State Department of Health) Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola)) Measles vaccine (CDC Measles (Rubeola) Presumptive evidence of measles immunity (CDC) Contraindications and precautions to measles vaccination (CDC) Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola)) Doctors' talk measles (YouTube) Measles (CDC: Measles Rubeola) Adverse events associated with childhood vaccines: evidence bearing on causality (NLM) Measles Vaccination: Know the Facts(ISDA: Infectious Diseases Society of America) Deaths following vaccination: what does the evidence show (Vaccine) Two infants die of whooping cough in Louisiana (CNN) Clinical features of pertussis (CDC: Whooping cough Pertussis) Pertussis vaccination recommendations (CDC: Whooping cough Pertussis) Diphtheria vaccination (CDC: Diphtheria) Mexico's first human case of H5N1 (Reuters) Human metapneumovirus seasonality and co-circulation with respiratory syncytial virus — United States, 2014–2024 (CDC: MMWR) Influenza: Wastewater scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView) Respiratory virus activity levels (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) FDA-CDC-DOD: 2025-2046 influenza vaccine composition (FDA) RSV: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection) Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) COVID-19 deaths (CDC) COVID-19 national and regional trends (CDC) COVID-19 variant tracker (CDC) SARS-CoV-2 genomes galore (Nextstrain) Human source SARS-CoV-2 aerosol transmission to remote sentinel hamsters (OFID) Interim clinical considerations for use of COVID-19 vaccines in the United States (CDC Vaccines & Immunizations) Where to get pemgarda (Pemgarda) EUA for the pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 (INVIYD) Fusion center (Prime Fusions) CDC Quarantine guidelines (CDC) NIH COVID-19 treatment guidelines (NIH) Drug interaction checker (University of Liverpool) Infectious Disease Society guidelines for treatment and management (ID Society) Cost-effectiveness analysis of nirmatrelvir/ritonavir for high-risk individuals with COVID-19….does this mean use the big button calculator? (OFID) Molnupiravir safety and efficacy (JMV) Convalescent plasma recommendation for immunocompromised (ID Society) What to do when sick with a respiratory virus (CDC) When your healthcare provider is infected/exposed with SARS-CoV-2 (CDC) Managing healthcare staffing shortages (CDC) Steroids, dexamethasone at the right time (OFID) Anticoagulation guidelines (hematology.org) Daniel Griffin's evidence based medical practices for long COVID (OFID) Long COVID hotline (Columbia : Columbia University Irving Medical Center) The answers: Long COVID Nirmatrelvir–ritonavir versus placebo–ritonavir in individuals with long COVID in the USA (PAX LC): (LANCET: Infectious Diseases) Quantitative brain volume differences between COVID-19 patients and non-COVID-19 volunteers (NeuroImage) Donepezil for fatigue and psychological symptoms in post–covid-19 condition (JAMA Network Open) Letters read on TWiV 1208 Dr. Griffin's COVID treatment summary (pdf) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your questions for Dr. Griffin to daniel@microbe.tv Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

*Content warning: Pregnancy loss, miscarriage, death of a child, infant loss, death, birth trauma, medical trauma, medical neglect, racism, mature and stressful themes. *Free + Confidential Resources + Safety Tips: somethingwaswrong.com/resources Moms Advocating For MomsS23 survivors Markeda, Kristen and Amanda have created a nonprofit, Moms Advocating for Moms, in hopes to create a future where maternal well-being is prioritized, disparities are addressed, and every mother has the resources and support she needs to thrive: https://www.momsadvocatingformoms.org/take-actionhttps://linktr.ee/momsadvocatingformoms Please sign the survivors petitions below to improve midwifery education and regulation in Texashttps://www.change.org/p/improve-midwifery-education-and-regulation-in-texas?recruiter=1336781649&recruited_by_id=74bf3b50-fd98-11ee-9e3f-a55a14340b5a&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=share_for_starters_page&utm_medium=copylink *Sources:American College of Nurse Midwiveshttps://midwife.org/ American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)https://www.acog.org/ A Midwife's Approach to Getting Labor Startedhttps://avivaromm.com/labor-induction-low-natural-approaches-midwife-md/ Bathing Your Babyhttps://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/baby/bathing-skin-care/Pages/Bathing-Your-Newborn.aspx Fetal presentation before birthhttps://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/pregnancy-week-by-week/in-depth/fetal-positions/art-20546850 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)https://www.cdc.gov/phlp/php/resources/health-insurance-portability-and-accountability-act-of-1996-hipaa.html#:~:text=The%20Health%20Insurance%20Portability%20and,from%20disclosure%20without%20patient's%20consent. March of Dimeshttps://www.marchofdimes.org/peristats/about-us National Midwifery Institutehttps://www.nationalmidwiferyinstitute.com/midwifery North American Registry of Midwives (NARM)https://narm.org/ Office for Civil Rightshttps://www.hhs.gov/ocr/index.html State investigating Dallas birth center and midwives, following multiple complaints from patientshttps://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/investigates/state-investigating-dallas-birth-center-midwives-following-multiple-complaints-from-patients/287-ea77eb18-c637-44d4-aaa2-fe8fd7a2fcef Texas Administrative Code Title 26, Chapter 503 - Birthing Centershttps://regulations.justia.com/states/texas/title-26/part-1/chapter-503/subchapter-d/section-503-34/ Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR)https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/ Texas Health and Human Services Birthing Centershttps://www.hhs.texas.gov/providers/health-care-facilities-regulation/birthing-centersWhat Happens at Appointments Once My Baby is Born?https://www.communitycaremidwives.com/faq.html#:~:text=Midwives%20provide%20care%20for%20both,six%20weeks%20after%20the%20birth.&text=breastfeeding%20support.,their%20family%20doctor%20for%20care. Zucker School of Medicine, Amos Grunebaum, MDhttps://faculty.medicine.hofstra.edu/13732-amos-grunebaum/publications *SWW S23 Theme Song & Artwork: Thank you so much to Emily Wolfe for covering Glad Rag's original song, U Think U for us this season!Hear more from Emily Wolfe:On SpotifyOn Apple Musichttps://www.emilywolfemusic.com/instagram.com/emilywolfemusicGlad Rags: https://www.gladragsmusic.com/ The S23 cover art is by the Amazing Sara StewartFollow Something Was Wrong:Website: somethingwaswrong.com IG: instagram.com/somethingwaswrongpodcastTikTok: tiktok.com/@somethingwaswrongpodcast Follow Tiffany Reese:Website: tiffanyreese.me IG: instagram.com/lookiebooSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello lament about the continuing measles outbreak, whether or not the measles outbreak was predicted, the FACTS about vaccination, high pathogenic influenza, H5N1 contaminated raw pet food, children's deaths, before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections and vaccination schedules and the efficacy of Moderna's seasonal mRNA vaccine, societal burden of COVID-19 and influenza, the FDA missed deadline for approving Novovax COVID vaccine, the WasterwaterScan dashboard, where to find PEMGARDA, provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center's long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, long COVID interventions, and Canada's long COVID dashboard. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode CDC buried a measles forecast that stressed the need for vaccinations….TRANSPARENCY? (Politico) Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Rubeola) Measles 159 in Texas…. (Texas Health and Human Services) 2025 Measles outbreak guidance (New Mexico Health) Measles and rubella weekly monitoring report (Government of Canada) Enhanced epidemiological summary Measles in Ontario (Public Health Ontario) Measles and rubella weekly monitoring report (Government of Canada) Enhanced epidemiological summary Measles in Ontario (Public Health Ontario) Measles exposures in Ontario (Public Health Ontario) Measles vaccine recommendations from NYP (jpg) Get the FACTS about measles (NY State Department of Health) Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola)) Measles vaccine (CDC Measles (Rubeola)) Presumptive evidence of measles immunity (CDC) Contraindications and precautions to measles vaccination (CDC) Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola)) Raw cat food tests positive for H5N1 (CIDRAP) Influenza: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens WastewaterSCan) US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView) Respiratory virus activity levels (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) FDA-CDC-DOD: 2025-2046 influenza vaccine composition (FDA) RSV: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection) Early impact of RSV vaccination in older adults in England (Lancet) Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) COVID-19 deaths (CDC) COVID-19 national and regional trends (CDC) COVID-19 variant tracker (CDC) SARS-CoV-2 genomes galore (Nextstrain) Evaluating the effectiveness of 2024-2025 seasonal mRNA-1273 vaccination against covid-19-associated hospitalizations and medically attended covid-19 among adults aged ≥ 18 years in the united states(medRxiv) Current Moderna vaccine 53% effective against COVID hospitalization?(CIDRAP) Preliminary estimates of COVID-19 burden for 2024-2025 (CDC COVID-19) Estimated range of annual burden of flu in the US from 2010 – 2024 (CDC-flu burden) US FDA missed the deadline for decision on Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine (Reuters) Interim clinical considerations for use of COVID-19 vaccines in the United States (CDC Vaccines & Immunizations) Where to get pemgarda (Pemgarda) EUA for the pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 (INVIYD) Fusion center (Prime Fusions) CDC Quarantine guidelines (CDC) NIH COVID-19 treatment guidelines (NIH) Metformin alleviates inflammatory response and severity rate of COVID-19 infection in elderly individuals(Scientific Reports) Drug interaction checker (University of Liverpool) Infectious Disease Society guidelines for treatment and management (ID Society) Cost-effectiveness analysis of nirmatrelvir/ritonavir for high-risk individuals with COVID-19….does this mean use the big button calculator? (OFID) Molnupiravir safety and efficacy (JMV) Convalescent plasma recommendation for immunocompromised (ID Society) What to do when sick with a respiratory virus (CDC) When your healthcare provider is infected/exposed with SARS-CoV-2 (CDC Managing healthcare staffing shortages (CDC) Steroids, dexamethasone at the right time (OFID) Anticoagulation guidelines (hematology.org) Daniel Griffin's evidence based medical practices for long COVID (OFID) Long COVID hotline (Columbia : Columbia University Irving Medical Center) The answers: Long COVID Reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 in the omicron era is associated with increased risk of post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2  infection: a recover-EHR cohort study(medRxiv) CAN-PCC RecMap, your one-stop shop for recommendations about Post COVID-19 Condition (Long COVID) (Canadian Guidelines for post COVID-19 condition) Letters read on TWiV 1206 Dr. Griffin's COVID treatment summary (pdf) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your questions for Dr. Griffin to daniel@microbe.tv Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

*Content warning: infant loss, death, birth trauma, medical trauma and neglect, fraud, scams. *Free + Confidential Resources + Safety Tips: somethingwaswrong.com/resources Moms Advocating For MomsMarkeda, Kristen and Amanda have created a nonprofit, Moms Advocating for Moms, in hopes to create a future where maternal well-being is prioritized, disparities are addressed, and every mother has the resources and support she needs to thrive: https://linktr.ee/momsadvocatingformoms Please sign the survivors petition below to improve midwifery education and regulation in Texas: https://tinyurl.com/SWWS23 *Sources:American College of Nurse Midwiveshttps://midwife.org/ American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)https://www.acog.org/ Balance billing: Independent Dispute Resolutionhttps://www.tdi.texas.gov/medical-billing/index.html#:~:text=Texas%20and%20federal%20laws%20prohibit,with%20a%20surprise%20medical%20bill. CMS, The No Surprises Act's Prohibitions on Balancing Billinghttps://www.cms.gov/files/document/a274577-1a-training-1-balancing-billingfinal508.pdf Do Certified Professional Midwives Need Medical Malpractice Insurance? Understanding the Legal Requirementshttps://www.rcins.com/do-certified-professional-midwives-need-medical-malpractice-insurance-understanding-the-legal-requirements/#:~:text=Texas%3A%20In%20contrast%2C%20Texas%20does,to%20carry%20medical%20malpractice%20insurance. How Expanding the Role of Midwives in U.S. Health Care Could Help Address the Maternal Health Crisishttps://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2023/may/expanding-role-midwives-address-maternal-health-crisis#:~:text=Midwives%20are%20licensed%20health%20care,women%20at%20double%20the%20rate. Implementation of 2015 Sunset Recommendationshttps://www.sunset.texas.gov/public/uploads/files/reports/Implementation%20of%202015%20Sunset%20Recommendations.pdf The Legislative Process in Texashttps://tlc.texas.gov/docs/legref/legislativeprocess.pdf National Midwifery Institutehttps://www.nationalmidwiferyinstitute.com/midwifery North American Registry of Midwives (NARM)https://narm.org/ Practicing Medicine Without a Licensehttps://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/practicing-medicine-without-a-license.htm#:~:text=Many%20states%20make%20it%20a,fine%20of%20up%20to%20%2410%2C000. Regulation of Birth Attendants in Texashttps://texashomebirth.com/regulation-2/ Texas Board of Nursing https://www.bon.texas.gov/ Texas Department of Insurance https://www.tdi.texas.gov/ Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR)https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/ TDLR, Midwives Penalties and Sanctionshttps://www.tdlr.texas.gov/enforcement/midsanctions.htm Texas Health and Human Serviceshttps://www.hhs.texas.gov/ Texas Medical Board (TMB)https://www.tmb.state.tx.us/ State investigating Dallas birth center and midwives, following multiple complaints from patients, by Morgan Young for WFAA (March 29, 2024) https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/investigates/state-investigating-dallas-birth-center-midwives-following-multiple-complaints-from-patients/287-ea77eb18-c637-44d4-aaa2-fe8fd7a2fcef What Do OB/GYN Nurse Practitioners Do?https://nursa.com/specialty-post/what-do-ob-gyn-nurse-practitoners-do#:~:text=OB/GYN%20nurse%20practitioners%20are,not%20licensed%20to%20deliver%20babies. What Is the Texas Medical Malpractice Statute of Limitations?https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-the-texas-statute-limitations-medical-malpractice-lawsuits.html#:~:text=Like%20a%20lot%20of%20states,and%20Remedies%20Code%20section%2074.251. Which states have the highest maternal mortality rates?https://usafacts.org/articles/which-states-have-the-highest-maternal-mortality-rates/ Why Won't an Attorney Take My Texas Medical Malpractice Case?https://www.hastingsfirm.com/your-case-and-texas-law/#:~:text=Texas%20law%20has%20made%20medical,and%20many%20hours%20of%20deposition. Zucker School of Medicine, Amos Grunebaum, MDhttps://faculty.medicine.hofstra.edu/13732-amos-grunebaum/publications *SWW S23 Theme Song & Artwork: Hear more from Emily Wolfe:On Spotify // On Apple Music // https://www.emilywolfemusic.com/ // instagram.com/emilywolfemusicGlad Rags: https://www.gladragsmusic.com/ The S23 cover art is by the Amazing Sara StewartSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Thousands of people convened in downtown Dallas Sunday afternoon to protest President Donald Trump's immigration policies in the 2025 Mega March. In other news, state authorities are abruptly shutting down a string of North Texas assisted living facilities, leaving families scrambling to relocate their elderly and high-needs loved ones. Texas Health and Human Services informed families on Thursday that the agency is shutting down a number of facilities operated by Silver Leaf Assisted Living; Monday was supposed to be the day that Neiman Marcus closed its doors for good at the iconic downtown site. Instead, it got a 9-month lifeline and a planned “reimagination” of the future. There were moving parts, but consumers — and their love for the store — was something of a surprise for Saks Global CEO Marc Metrick during the process; and it's a battle of Texas tonight in the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament Elite Eight matchup between TCU and Texas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello rue about the continuing measles outbreak, the FACTS about vaccination, irresponsibility of promoting vitamin A therapy “lifelong liver damage or vaccinaton!”, high pathogenic influenza and egg importation before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections and vaccination schedules and if vaccination affects long COVID, the WasterwaterScan dashboard, where to find PEMGARDA, provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center's long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, long COVID interventions, how to track long symptoms using a wearable device and how these data will never be used with the closing of governmental long COVID programs and offices. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Rubeola) Measles 159 in Texas…. (Texas Health and Human Services) 2025 Measles outbreak guidance (New Mexico Health) 10 in Ohio and 23 in Kansas…..oh my! (US News) Measles data (Kansas: Department of Health and Enivornment) Health director urges parents to ensure children are vaccinated against measles (Ohio: Department of Health) Get the FACTS about measles (NY State Department of Health) New York Governor Kathy Hochul sounds alarm for measles vaccine amid 4 confirmed cases (abc News) Get the FACTS about measles (NY State Department of Health) Long-term dynamics of measles virus–specific neutralizing antibodies in children vaccinated before 12 months of age (CID) Measles vaccine (CDC Measles (Rubeola)) Clinical Overview of Measles (CDC Rubeola) Red Book: 2024–2027 Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases (33rd Edition)(Redbook) Vitamin A in Children Hospitalized for Measles in a High-income Country (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal) No vaccination necessary…….instead take vitamin A and develop liver damage….(NY Times) Measles vaccine recommendations from NYP (jpg) Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola)) Measles vaccine (CDC Measles (Rubeola)) Presumptive evidence of measles immunity (CDC) Contraindications and precautions to measles vaccination (CDC) Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola)) Influenza of avian origin confirmed in a sheep in Yorkshire (UK government) UK reports H5N1 in a sheep on poultry-outbreak farm(CIDRAP) Don't send money….send EGGS! (Reuters) Are your eggs domestic or Brazilian? (Reuters) USDA to invest 100M in bird flu projects…..(Reuters) Influenza: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) Flu in US continues to decline but still packs a punch (CIDRAP) Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView) Respiratory virus activity levels (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) FDA-CDC-DOD: 2025-2026 influenza vaccine composition (FDA) RSV: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) Weekly US influenza surveillance report (CDC FluView) US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection) Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) COVID-19 deaths (CDC) COVID-19 national and regional trends (CDC) COVID-19 variant tracker (CDC) SARS-CoV-2 genomes galore (Nextstrain) Lower levels of household transmission of sars-cov-2 omicron variant of concern vs wild type: an interplay between transmissibility and immune status (JID) Does COVID-19 vaccination reduce the risk and duration of post COVID-19 condition?(European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control) COVID-19 vaccination reduces risk of ‘long COVID' in adults (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control) Vaccination cuts the risk of long COVID 27%, review suggests (CIDRAP) Interim clinical considerations for use of covid-19 vaccines in the United States (CDC: Vaccines and immunizations) Where to get pemgarda (Pemgarda) EUA for the pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 (INVIYD) Fusion center (Prime Fusions) CDC Quarantine guidelines (CDC) NIH COVID-19 treatment guidelines (NIH) Drug interaction checker (University of Liverpool) Infectious Disease Society guidelines for treatment and management (ID Society) The effect of nirmatrelvir-ritonavir on short- and long-term adverse outcomes from covid-19 among patients with kidney disease (ofid) Molnupiravir safety and efficacy (JMV) Convalescent plasma recommendation for immunocompromised (ID Society) What to do when sick with a respiratory virus (CDC) When your healthcare provider is infected/exposed with SARS-CoV-2 (CDC) Managing healthcare staffing shortages (CDC) Steroids, dexamethasone at the right time (OFID) Anticoagulation guidelines (hematology.org) Daniel Griffin's evidence based medical practices for long COVID (OFID) Long COVID hotline (Columbia : Columbia University Irving Medical Center) The answers: Long COVID Effect of pulmonary rehabilitation for patients with long COVID-19(Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease) Wearable data reveals distinct characteristics of individuals with persistent symptoms after a SARS-CoV-2 infection(npj digital medicine) Long Covid office ‘will be closing,' Trump administration announces(Politico) Commencing the reduction of the federal bureaucracy(White House) Musk said no one has died since aid was cut. That isn't true.(NY Times) Letters read on TWiV 1204 Dr. Griffin's COVID treatment summary (pdf) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your questions for Dr. Griffin to daniel@microbe.tv Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello rue about the unknowns of Sudan disease and new cases of paralytic polio, discuss the growing measles outbreak, exposure of newborns to measles, the FACTS about vaccination, high pathogenic influenza in dairy cows and cats, RFK's statement “just let the virus rip through the hens” before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the WasterwaterScan dashboard, where to find PEMGARDA, what happens when antiviral therapy is delayed, provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center's long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, long COVID interventions and the relationship between EBV and long COVID. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode New cases of poliomyelitis  (GPEI) Polio in Africa (CIDRAP) Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (PROMED) ProMED Subscriptions (PROMED) Measles infected baby and exposes 12 (NY Post) Measles 159 in Texas…. (Texas Health and Human Services) 2025 Measles outbreak guidance (New Mexico Health) Get the FACTS about measles (NY State Department of Health) Revising US MMR vaccine recommendations amid changing domestic risks (JAMA Network) Long-term dynamics of measles virus–specific neutralizing antibodies in children vaccinated before 12 months of age (CID) Newborns exposed to measles in Texas hospital (NBC News) Newborns exposed in West Texas measles outbreak (CIDRAP) Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola)) Measles vaccine (CDC Measles (Rubeola)) Presumptive evidence of measles immunity (CDC) Contraindications and precautions to measles vaccination (CDC) Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola)) Increase in global and domestic measles cases and outbreaks: (CDC:) The impact of influenza A H5N1 virus infection in dairy cows (Nature: Research Gate) Payment of indemnity and compensation for highly pathogenic avian Influenza (Federal Register) FDA or USDA: Kennedy's alarming prescription for bird flu on poultry farms(NY Times) Some of NYC's 500K stray cats could be infected with bird flu(NY Post) Two NYC cats dead from avian flu, including 8-month-old kitten:(NY Post) H7N9 avian flu strikes Mississippi broiler farm(CIDRAP) Highly pathogenic avian influenza diagnosed in Mississippi poultry flock (Mississippi Board of Animal Health) Influenza: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) Weekly surveillance report: cliff notes (CDC FluView) The burden of all-cause mortality following influenza-associated hospitalizations (CID) FDA-CDC-DOD: 2025-2046 influenza vaccine composition (FDA) FDA announces flu strain picks for next season(CIDRAP) RSV: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) Weekly US influenza surveillance report (CDC FluView) US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection) Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) COVID-19 deaths (CDC) COVID-19 national and regional trends (CDC) COVID-19 variant tracker (CDC) SARS-CoV-2 genomes galore (Nextstrain) COVID-19 antiviral medication use among pregnant and recently pregnant US outpatients (CID) Where to get pemgarda (Pemgarda) EUA for the pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 (INVIYD) Fusion center (Prime Fusions) CDC Quarantine guidelines (CDC) NIH COVID-19 treatment guidelines (NIH) Drug interaction checker (University of Liverpool) Infectious Disease Society guidelines for treatment and management (ID Society) Molnupiravir safety and efficacy (JMV) Convalescent plasma recommendation for immunocompromised (ID Society) What to do when sick with a respiratory virus (CDC) When your healthcare provider is infected/exposed with SARS-CoV-2 (CDC) Managing healthcare staffing shortages (CDC) Steroids,dexamethasone at the right time (OFID) Anticoagulation guidelines (hematology.org) Daniel Griffin's evidence based medical practices for long COVID (OFID) Long COVID hotline (Columbia : Columbia University Irving Medical Center) The answers: Long COVID TGFβ links EBV to multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children(Nature) Letters read on TWiV 1202 Dr. Griffin's COVID treatment summary (pdf) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your questions for Dr. Griffin to daniel@microbe.tv Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello bemoan the continued outbreak of Sudan virus and growing number of paralytic polio cases before discussing growing measles outbreak in the US and Europe, the vaccine, an interview with a parent whose child died of measles infection, adverse effects of vaccination and how parents do not think they have accurate information about “bird flu” before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the WasterwaterScan dashboard, where to find PEMGARDA, what happens when antiviral therapy is delayed, provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center's long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, long COVID interventions and the benefits of antiviral therapies on post acute SARS-Cov-2 infection sequelae. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Sudan virus disease(WHO) New cases of poliomyelitis  (GPEI) Measles 159 in Texas…. (Texas Health and Human Services) 2025 Measles outbreak guidance (New Mexico Health) First cases of measles in Oklahoma (Oklahoma) Measles case on Long Island (CBS News) Public health confirms measles case in Los Angeles County (County of Los Angeles Public Health) Measles exposure (Department of public health: City of Philadelphia) Where US measles outbreaks are spreading (New York Times) Statement from the chief public health officer of Canada on the increase in measles cases and the risk to people in Canada(Health Canada) Measles and rubella monthly report (ecdc) Measles on the rise again in Europe (EurekAlert) Measles: symptoms, spread & SSPE | Doctors Talk | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (YouTube) Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola)) Adverse events associated with childhood vaccines: evidence bearing on causality (NLM: NCBI) Measles vaccination: know the facts? (Infectious Diseases Society of America) Deaths following vaccination: What does the evidence show? (Vaccine) Facts and myths about measles (LANCET: Infectious Diseases) His daughter was America's first measles death in a decade (The Atlantic) Less than half of parents think they have accurate information about bird flu (EurekAlert) Many US parents feeluninformed about avian flu risks (CIDRAP) Trends in respiratory pathogen testing at us children's hospital(JAMA Network) Changes in respiratory viral testing before and after the covid-19 pandemic(JAMA Network) Free COVID-19 test program stops taking orders (Health day) Human cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza a(h5n1) — California, September–December 2024 (CDC MMWR) Letters read on TWiV 1198 37:56 Dr. Griffin's COVID treatment summary (pdf) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your questions for Dr. Griffin to daniel@microbe.tv Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

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As measles continue to spread in Texas, health officials in the Dallas-Fort Worth area are looking to add testing centers to get quicker returns on measles tests. Dr. Philip Huang, director of Dallas County's Department of Health and Human Services, said the department could add local testing centers should measles cases spike in North Texas. The West Texas outbreak neared 200 cases Friday; In other news, many Ellis County residents were picking up the pieces Sunday after high straight-line winds blew through the area Saturday, injuring at least four people, including one man who died.  Meteorologists say winds reached up to 90 miles per hour; a man died after being shot last Thursday by Frisco police as officers attempted to serve a warrant. Family members told The Dallas Morning News that police have shared little information about the circumstances that led to the shooting death of 43-year old Gregory Dylan Sheppard; and the NFL salary cap continues to skyrocket. The league informed teams at the scouting combine the cap will be a record-high $279.2 million in 2025, an increase of $23.8 million. It's up $102 million since 2018. What does that mean for the Cowboys? Simply put, the club will have more money than expected to retain its free agents and possibly add new talent to the roster. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello deliberate the effect of the absence of US foreign aid on the Ebola outbreak in Uganda and death of two children, continued use of nOPV2 in Gaza and the utter failure of type 2 poliovirus removal from the oral poliovirus vaccine, growing measles outbreak in the US including the death of a second child, measles infection parties, the use of fat soluble vitamin A and fish liver oil as anti-viral therapies as well as the history and proven safety of the measles vaccine before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the WasterwaterScan dashboard, where to find PEMGARDA, what happens when antiviral therapy is delayed, provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center's long COVID treatment center, and where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, long COVID interventions. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode African region: outbreaks and other emergencies(WHO Bitstream) US withdrawal……death of 4 year old children from Ebola (CIDRAP) Science and health writer Apoorva Mandavilli (NY Times) US foreign aid pullback……death of 4 year old in Uganda (NY Times) Another Ebola death reported in Kampala (Monitor) African region: outbreaks and other emergencies(WHO Bitstream) More than 600,000 doses of nOPV2 in Gaza last week  (GPEI) Utter failure of the global withdrawal of the Sabin oral poliovirus type 2 vaccine 2016 (Science) Measles 159 in Texas…. (Texas Health and Human Services) Second child dies in the growing measles outbreak (Washington Post) 2025 Measles outbreak guidance (New Mexico Health) Lea county resident tests positive for measles after death (New Mexico Health) Robert F Kennedy Jr article series (The Guardian) Kennedy Jr backtracks and says US measles outbreak is now a ‘top priority' for health department (The Guardian) RFK Jr. Says Ending Measles Outbreak Is Priority (Wall Street Journal) RFK Jr. Sparks Anti-Vaxxer Anger: ‘No Different Than Fauci' (Newsweek) Amid West Texas measles outbreak, vaccine resistance hardens (Washington Post) How to protect your children during a measles outbreak (healthychildren.org) Measles vaccination protects against virus infection and other infections (Science) MEASLES (WHO) C.D.C. Sends ‘Disease Detectives' to Texas for Measles Outbreak(NY Times) Studies on an attenuated measles-virus vaccine — clinical, virologic and immunologic fffects of vaccine in institutionalized children(NEJM) Studies on an attenuated measles-virus vaccine — clinical and antigenic effects of vaccine in institutionalized children (NEJM) Studies on an attenuated measles-virus vaccine — administration of vaccine by several routes (NEJM) Studies on an attenuated measles-virus vaccine — clinical, antigenic and prophylactic effects of vaccine in institutionalized and home-dwelling children(NEJM) Studies on an attenuated measles-virus vaccine — clinical, antigenic and prophylactic effects of vaccine in institutionalized children(NEJM) Studies on an attenuated measles-virus vaccine — clinical, antigenic and prophylactic effects of vaccine in home-dwelling children (NEJM) Studies on an attenuated measles-virus vaccine — general summary and evaluation of the results of vaccination(NEJM) Cooperative measles vaccine field trial (Pediatrics) A collaborative study of measles vaccines in five united states communities (American Journal of Public Health) A field trial of inactivated measles virus vaccine in young school children(JAMA Network) Prevention of natural and experimental measles with the vaccine(JAMA Network) A field trial in young school children(JAMA Network) Measles vaccination before the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine (American Journal of Public Health) The status of measles vaccines (Journal of the National Medical Association) Measles, mumps, and rubella (mmr) vaccination: what everyone should know (CDC Vaccines & Immunizations) Clinical review memo- measles, mumps, rubella (FDA) History of the measles vaccine (WHO) Vitamin A and the measles (Yahoo! News) As measles spreads, Kennedy embraces remedies like cod liver oil (NY Times) Parents are holding ‘measles parties' in the U.S., alarming healthexperts(Global News) Influenza: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) Weekly surveillance report: cliff notes (CDC FluView) RSV: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) Weekly US influenza surveillance report (CDC FluView) US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection) Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) COVID-19 deaths (CDC) COVID-19 national and regional trends (CDC) COVID-19 variant tracker (CDC) SARS-CoV-2 genomes galore (Nextstrain) Interim estimates of 2024–2025 covid-19 vaccine effectiveness among adults aged ≥18 years — vision and ivy networks, September 2024–January 2025 (CDC MMWR) Where to get pemgarda (Pemgarda) EUA for the pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 (INVIYD) Fusion center (Prime Fusions) CDC Quarantine guidelines (CDC) NIH COVID-19 treatment guidelines (NIH) Drug interaction checker (University of Liverpool) Infectious Disease Society guidelines for treatment and management (ID Society) Molnupiravir safety and efficacy (JMV) Convalescent plasma recommendation for immunocompromised (ID Society) What to do when sick with a respiratory virus (CDC) When your healthcare provider is infected/exposed with SARS-CoV-2 (CDC) Managing healthcare staffing shortages (CDC) Steroids, dexamethasone at the right time (OFID) Anticoagulation guidelines (hematology.org) Effect of early and delayed treatment with remdesivir on mortality in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 (OFID) Daniel Griffin's evidence based medical practices for long COVID (OFID) Long COVID hotline (Columbia : Columbia University Irving Medical Center) The answers: Long COVID Letters read on TWiV 1198 Dr. Griffin's COVID treatment summary (pdf) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your questions for Dr. Griffin to daniel@microbe.tv Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

On episode #75 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 2/13/25 – 2/26/25. Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of Puscast! Links for this episode Viral VIMKUNYA (FDA) Co-infection of SARS‐CoV‐2 and influenza A/B among patients with COVID-19(BMC Infectious Diseases) Measles (Texas Health and Human Services) 2025 Measles outbreak guidelines (New Mexico Health) BTN: Beyond the Noise with Paul Offit (microbeTV) Rubeola response (febrile) Timing of influenza antiviral therapy and risk of death in adults hospitalized with influenza-associated pneumonia, influenza hospitalization surveillance network (FluSurv-NET), 2012–2019 (CID) Mother-child dyads living with HIV in the Western Cape, South Africa: undetectable = undetectable? (Journal of the International AIDS Society) Early impacts of the PEPFAR stop-work order: a rapid assessment(Journal of the International AIDS Society) Prevalence, clinical management, and outcomes of adults hospitalised with endemic arbovirus illness in southeast Europe (MERMAIDS-ARBO): a prospective observational study (LANCET: Infectious Diseases) Bacterial Effects of extended anaerobic antibiotic coverage on anaerobic bloodstream infection: A multisite retrospective stud (International Journal of Infectious Diseases) The effectiveness of newer Beta-Lactams for the treatment of antimicrobial-resistant gram-negative meningitis (CID) Treatment of macrolide-resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia in children: a aeta-analysis of macrolides versus tetracycline (The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal) Fungal The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube) Concordance of noninvasive plasma cell-free DNA With invasive diagnostics for diagnosis of invasive fungal disease (CID) Invasive fungal infections in patients with liver disease: immunological and clinical considerations for the intensive care unit(Intensive Care Medicine) Parasitic Epidemiologic Investigation of Protozoa and soil-transmitted helminths in Starr County, Texas (American J Trop Med and Hyg) Post-artesunate delayed hemolysis in African children with severe malaria: incidence, medical impact and prevention (CID) Miscellaneous Telehealth (Medicare.gov) Public comment: IDSA guideline on management and treatment of complicated urinary tract infections (IDSA) Music is by Ronald Jenkees Information on this podcast should not be considered as medical advice.

In this episode, Penny Johnson, President and CEO of Texas Health Huguley Hospital, Fort Worth South, part of AdventHealth, discusses the hospital's strategic expansion, workforce development, and long-term leadership planning. She shares insights on navigating growth in a rapidly expanding region, the importance of mentorship, and the evolving expectations in patient care.

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello lament about the downfall of public health from “postponement” of the advisory committee on immunization practices and the FDA VRBPAC influenza strain selection meetings to how the communication pause prevents public notice of NIH study section meetings, and withdrawal of CDC promotions for the ‘flu vaccine' before discussing the end of Ebola outbreak in Uganda, funding from Saudi Arabia for polio eradication, the continuing and growing measles outbreak in the US including misinformation from the Secretary of HHS, highly pathogenic avian flu and its economic effect, ie the cost of eggs before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the WasterwaterScan dashboard, where to find PEMGARDA, an update of Paxlovid administration, provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center's long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, long COVID interventions and FDA approval of adjuvanted Novovax COVID vaccine. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Phantom ACIP (CDC) Postponement of ACIP…..hummmm (STATNews) Influenza Strain selection VRBPAC cancelled (Reuters) How NIH funded research is impacted by government communication pause (NY Times) Can be reviewed but still no money (STATNews) Final push to end Ebola in Uganda (WHO Uganda) Saudi Arabia sponsors polio eradication effort  (GPEI))  $500 million from Saudi Arabia to immunize 370 million children against polio (CIDRAP) Measles 124 in Texas…. (Texas Health and Human Services) A Texas child who was not vaccinated has died of measles(AP News) The Measles book-(Apple Books) Measles vaccination protects against virus infection and other infections (Science) Measles deadliest sequelae (MEDPAGE TODAY) Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Measles) Unvaccinated Child Dies of Measles in Texas Outbreak(NY Times) Texas child is first reported US measles death in a decade as outbreak hits more than 130 (Reuters) Trump's cabinet meeting: Kennedy Shocker “Not unusual”……..seriously! (YouTube) First measles death reported in Texas as Kennedy downplays the outbreak (NBC News) Measles cliff notes: symptoms timeline (Substackdn) Annual state immunization report (Texas Health and Human Services) Measles imported into Kentucky…….no tariffs? (Commonwealth of Kentucky) Egg shortage affect flu shots? (MEDPAGE TODAY) Which Came First, the Chicken Slaughter or the Egg Shortage(Wall Street Journal) Avian Influenza in Birds: Causes and How It Spreads (CDC Avian Influenza) Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins: My Plan to Lower Egg Prices (Wall Street Journal) Influenza: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView) RSV: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) Weekly US influenza surveillance report (CDC FluView) US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) Trump administration yanks CDC flu vaccine campaign(NPR) RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection) New wild to mild campaign drives key message to tame flu and reset expectations (CDC Influenza) Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) COVID-19 deaths (CDC) COVID-19 national and regional trends (CDC) COVID-19 variant tracker (CDC) SARS-CoV-2 genomes galore (Nextstrain) Effectiveness of the original monovalent messenger RNA Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination series against hospitalization for COVID-19–Associated venous thromboembolism (JID) Where to get pemgarda (Pemgarda) EUA for the pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 (INVIYD) Infusion center (Prime Fusions) CDC Quarantine guidelines (CDC) NIH COVID-19 treatment guidelines (NIH) Drug interaction checker (University of Liverpool) Demographic variation in US outpatient hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin use during the COVID-19 pandemic (HealthAffairs) Paxlovid update (Pfizer) Infectious Disease Society guidelines for treatment and management (ID Society) Alleviation of COVID-19 symptoms and reduction in healthcare utilization among high-risk patients treated With nirmatrelvir/ritonavir (NMV/R) (CID) Molnupiravir safety and efficacy (JMV) Convalescent plasma recommendation for immunocompromised (ID Society) What to do when sick with a respiratory virus (CDC) When your healthcare provider is infected/exposed with SARS-CoV-2 (CDC) Managing healthcare staffing shortages (CDC) Steroids, dexamethasone at the right time (OFID) Anticoagulation guidelines (hematology.org) Daniel Griffin's evidence based medical practices for long COVID (OFID) Long COVID hotline (Columbia : Columbia University Irving Medical Center) The answers: Long COVID Interventions for Long COVID: A Narrative Review (Journal of General Internal Medicine) COVID-19 vaccination and odds of post–COVID-19 condition symptoms in children aged 5 to 17 Years (JAMA Network) Novavax COVID-19 vaccine, adjuvanted (FDA) Letters read on TWiV 1196 Dr. Griffin's COVID treatment summary (pdf) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your questions for Dr. Griffin to daniel@microbe.tv Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

This week, Dr. Scott Sigman sits down with Dr. Thomas DeBerardino, a retired US Army Colonel and and Professor of Orthopedic Medicine at University of Texas Health in San Antonio. Here, they discuss his childhood as a military brat, his education at West Point, his residency in Hawaii, and more.

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello reminiscence about Dickson before discussing discharging Ebola patients, another announcement of emergency measures to control polio spread and the third nOPV2 vaccination campaign in Gaza in less than 6 months, the measles outbreak in the US, vaccination campaign for chickens against high pathogenic avian flu before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the WasterwaterScan dashboard, where to find PEMGARDA, an update of Paxlovid administration provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center's long COVID treatment center, and where to go for answers to your long COVID questions. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode In memory of Dickson (NY Times) All Ebola patients discharged in Uganda (DG Alerts) Uganda discharges Ebola patients (WHO Uganda) Emergency measures to stop polio…..isn't this the same plan as last year? (GPEI)) A third nOPV2 campaign…..but I thought OPV stops transmission (Reuters) Worst outbreak of measles in 30 years for Texas….go big or go home! (AP News) Measles 58 in Texas…. (Texas Health and Human Services) High pathogenic avain influenza virus infection of indoor domestic cats (CDC MMWR) Avian influenza in dairy cattle in Arizona (AZEIN) Third avian flu spillover! (CIDRAP) No vaccine hesitancy in chickens…..vaccinate all! (Science) Zoetis to supply conditionally licensed avian influenza H5N1 vaccine for chickens (Zoetis) High path avian influenza in mammals (USDA: Animal and plant health inspection service) How to vaccinate your chicken (WikiHow) Vaccine failure due to poor administration.(the poultry site) Human cases of H5N1 in US rise to 4 (CBS News) Canada's buying vaccine as US rats become infected (CIDRP) Canada purchases avian influenza vaccine for those at high risk (Canada Public Health) Influenza: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) How the communications pause endangered us about influenza (AP News) Most intense flu season in 15 years (AP News) US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView) RSV: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) Weekly US influenza surveillance report (CDC FluView) RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection) US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) COVID-19 case fatality rate and infection fatality rate from 2020 to 2023 (Journal of Infection and public health) Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) COVID-19 deaths (CDC) COVID-19 national and regional trends (CDC) COVID-19 variant tracker (CDC) SARS-CoV-2 genomes galore (Nextstrain) Where to get pemgarda (Pemgarda) EUA for the pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 (INVIYD) Fusion center near you….if in NY (Prime Fusions) CDC Quarantine guidelines (CDC) NIH COVID-19 treatment guidelines (NIH) Drug interaction checker (University of Liverpool) Paxlovid update (Pfizer) Infectious Disease Society guidelines for treatment and management (ID Society) A randomized, double-blind, Phase 1, single- and multiple-dose placebo-controlled study of the safety and pharmacokinetics of IN-006, an inhaled antibody treatment for COVID-19 in healthy volunteers (eBioMedicine) Ensitrelvir for the Treatment of Nonhospitalized Adults with COVID-19 (CID) Molnupiravir safety and efficacy (JMV) Convalescent plasma recommendation for immunocompromised (ID Society) What to do when sick with a respiratory virus (CDC) When your healthcare provider is infected/exposed with SARS-CoV-2 (CDC) Managing healthcare staffing shortages (CDC) Steroids, dexamethasone at the right time (OFID) Anticoagulation guidelines (hematology.org) Daniel Griffin's evidence based medical practices for long COVID (OFID) Long COVID hotline (Columbia : Columbia University Irving Medical Center) The answers: Long COVID Letters read on TWiV 1194 Dr. Griffin's COVID treatment summary (pdf) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your questions for Dr. Griffin to daniel@microbe.tv Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello discuss confirmation of Robert F Kennedy as HHS sectary, mpox, Ebola, how the American people support vaccine development and administration, the measles outbreak in the US-Texas, Georgia and influenza: the number of human infections, high avian flu in mammals, house cats and dairy cows before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the WasterwaterScan dashboard, where to find PEMGARDA, an update of Paxlovid administration provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center's long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, how long COVID varies between children and adults and if viral infection reduces telomere length in sperm. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Confirmation of RFK, Jr as HHS sect (NY Times) Did you know mpox in NY?….(Reuters) Mpox in sex workers in the Congo and in NY (CIDRAP) 9 confirmed, 265 suspected Ebola cases in Uganda (AP news) WHAT!? Support vaccines: availability and development. WHAT? (Businesswire) Measles rising in the unvaccinated. You mean the vaccines does something positive?  (ABC News) Measles in Texas….go big or go home (Texas Health and Human Services) Vaccination Conscientious exemptions in Texas (Texas Health and Human Services) 2, 6, 14 measles hospitalizations in Texas (CNN) Decreases in childhood vaccinations SchoolVaxView(CDC) 2 when 24 cases of measles in two weeks (Texas Health and Human Services) Measles in small town Texas (NY Times) Measles in the US Texas, Georgia, Rhode Island, New York, New Mexico: Elimination of measles (JID) Influenza taxonomy (NCBI) H5N9 in commercial duck farm, California (American Animal Hospital Association) Second type of bird flu circulating in ducks (Scientific Amercia) Variant H1N2 flu in Iowa (CIDRAP) All types of influenza (CDC Influenza) Bird flu in the zoos: Bronx and Queens (Gothamist) High path avian influenza in mammals (USDA: Animal and plant health inspection service) Bird flu in house cats…..I tawt I taw a puddy tat (KFF Health News) New strain of influenza in dairy cows (AP News) Influenza: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) How the communications pause endangered us about influenza (AP News) Most intense flu season in 15 years (AP News)US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView) RSV: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) Weekly US influenza surveillance report (CDC FluView) RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection) 10 year surveillance of RSV hospitalization in adults(JID) Seasonality of RSV: 2017-2023(CDC: MMWR) What doctors wish patients know about RSV (AMA) US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) COVID-19 deaths (CDC) COVID-19 national and regional trends (CDC) COVID-19 variant tracker (CDC) SARS-CoV-2 genomes galore (Nextstrain) Where to get pemgarda (Pemgarda) EUA for the pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 (INVIYD) Fusion center near you….if in NY (Prime Fusions) CDC Quarantine guidelines (CDC) NIH COVID-19 treatment guidelines (NIH) Drug interaction checker (University of Liverpool) Paxlovid update (Pfizer) Infectious Disease Society guidelines for treatment and management (ID Society) Molnupiravir safety and efficacy (JMV) Convalescent plasma recommendation for immunocompromised (ID Society) What to do when sick with a respiratory virus (CDC) When your healthcare provider is infected/exposed with SARS-CoV-2 (CDC) Managing healthcare staffing shortages (CDC) Steroids, dexamethasone at the right time (OFID) Anticoagulation guidelines (hematology.org) Daniel Griffin's evidence based medical practices for long COVID (OFID) Long COVID hotline (Columbia : Columbia University Irving Medical Center) The answers: Long COVID Proportion of Long COVID incidence in adults and children (CID) SARS-CoV-2 infection effects sperm telomere length (Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics) Pediatric gastrointestinal tract outcomes during the postacute phase of COVID-19c] (JAMA Network) Letters read on TWiV 1192 Dr. Griffin's COVID treatment summary (pdf) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your questions for Dr. Griffin to daniel@microbe.tv

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) is notifying recipients of agency services and other affected individuals that their protected health, personal identifying information, or sensitive personal information may have been inappropriately accessed, used, or disclosed. On Nov. 21, 2024, HHSC learned the account information and personal identifying information of at least 61,000 individuals may have been improperly accessed by agency employees. HHSC took immediate steps to mitigate the breach by terminating the employees involved and referring the incident to the Texas Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General for investigation and coordination with prosecutor offices to pursue...Article Link

Parts of Texas that seldom see snow may well see frozen precipitation blanketing beaches tomorrow. We’re keeping watch. Seven employees of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission have been fired for improperly accessing, and in some cases, stealing, from the accounts of thousands of Texans receiving public assistance. And: TikTok went dark for U.S. […] The post Health and Human Services Commission employees accused in data breach appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Seven employees of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission have been fired under suspicion of breaching the data and stealing the service funds of thousands of low-income Texans who rely on their services: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/17/texas-hhsc-food-stamp-fraud-data-breach/ Amarillo anti-choice activist judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, his court cherry-picked by of officials from Idaho, Kansas and Missouri and in defiance of a recent SCOTUS ruling, has green-lighted those states efforts to scale back access to the abortion drug mifepristone: https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/texas-judge-allows-states-to-advance-efforts-to-restrict-access-to-mifepristone/ Christian Nationalist elements in Texas are smarting after an opening day loss in their effort to install Rep. David Cook as House Speaker: https://www.chron.com/culture/religion/article/christian-alt-right-politics-20036423.php ...The effort to Christianize government, should it succeed in Texas, is highly unlikely to stop at the Lone Star State's borders: https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/texas-speaker-vote-christian-nationalists-trump-rcna187869 ...State Senator Phil King of northwest D/FW is once again pressing to require the Ten Commandments to be posted in every Texas classroom: https://www.chron.com/politics/article/ten-commandments-texas-schools-20035683.php ...Meanwhile a SECOND North Texas pastor is accused of child sexual abuse, just this month: https://www.keranews.org/news/2025-01-15/another-north-texas-pastor-arrested-on-child-sexual-abuse-charge-court-records-show The merch to match your progressive values awaits at our web store! Grab your goodies at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://store.progresstexas.org/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. We're loving the troll-free environment at BlueSky! Follow us there at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bsky.app/profile/progresstexas.bsky.social⁠⁠. Thanks for listening! Find our web store and other ways to support our important work at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://progresstexas.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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Stories we're covering this week:• The run for city council has begun• Man's best friend retires in A Moment With the Mayor• 89th State Legislature elects a new Speaker of the House• Mansfield Police officers disarm a volatile situation in Rose Park• Student-run bistro is back in business after the holiday break• Music Alley festival is looking for the next great act• In Sports, an in-depth look at boys basketballIn the Features Section:• Angel Biasatti talks about exercise and depression in Methodist Mansfield News to Know• Angela Hornburg addresses go from a mortgage to building your dream home in the Mansfield Real Estate Update• Brian Certain serves up a morning cold brew that just returned from a tropical vacation in the Cocktail of the WeekAnd in the talk segment, Steve concludes his talk with Texas Health Hospital's CEO Eulanie Lashley. Plus, your chance to win a $25 gift card to a Mansfield restaurant of your choice with our Mansfield Trivia Question, courtesy of Joe Jenkins Insurance.We are Mansfield's only source for news, talk and information. This is About Mansfield.

Stories we're covering this week:• The frigid weather among us could bring … snow?• Utility company offers energy saving tips• City wants to know how you really feel• Couple rings in the new year with a new baby• Police officer retires after two decades of service• Mansfield Cares prepares to take you to Havana• In Sports, Lake Ridge and Summit are rocking' the basketball courtIn the Features Section:• Tourism Manager Tim Roberts joins us with the Cultural Arts Calendar• Angel Biasatti will talk about the Level 2 Trauma Center in Methodist Mansfield News to Know• Angela Hornburg addresses how to get started in investing in real estate in the Mansfield Real Estate Update• Brian Certain serves up a drink that mixes your morning routine with your evening sophistication in the Cocktail of the WeekAnd in the talk segment, Steve talks with Texas Health Hospital's CEO Eulanie Lashley. Plus, your chance to win a $25 gift card to a Mansfield restaurant of your choice with our Mansfield Trivia Question, courtesy of Joe Jenkins Insurance. We are Mansfield's only source for news, talk and information. This is About Mansfield.

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Texas GOP machine choice David Cook and establishment-defying Dustin Burrows both claim to have enough votes to become Speaker of the Texas House - Burrows in particular is flirting with disaster: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/dustin-burrows-david-cook-texas-house-speaker-19971639.php ...Burrows has started calling himself "Speaker-elect", drawing legal scrutiny from his opponents: https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/state/2024/12/11/dustin-burrows-david-cook-texas-republican-state-election-code-house-speaker-elect/76889871007/ Much to review in advance of the 2025 Lege - our Advocacy department has gotten that look ahead going: https://progresstexas.org/preview-2025-texas-maga-legislative-session ...The Texas Health and Human Services Commission, known for their incompetence bordering on cruelty towards lower-income Texans, is seeking hundreds of millions of additional dollars next year: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/12/11/texas-medicaid-food-stamps-application-legislature/ ...Statewide electeds (yes, Republicans) have joined cannabis advocates and businesses in pushing back against Lt. Governor Dan Patrick's promised push to ban all THC products: https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/thc-ban-texas-19964213.php ...One Republican lawmaker wants to deploy drones armed with pepper spray in the hallways of Texas schools: https://www.expressnews.com/opinion/editorial/article/texas-bill-drones-pepper-spray-school-security-19963801.php ...And another Republican lawmaker wants to stop the sale of sex toys by mainstream retailers like Wal-Mart and CVS: https://www.chron.com/culture/article/sex-toy-sales-texas-illegal-19971679.php Great to see everyone at our first holiday gathering in Austin! The second is in Dallas on December 16 - there are sponsorship opportunities available, and individual tickets are now on sale here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://act.progresstexas.org/a/progress-texas-holiday-parties-2024⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Holiday shopping for your progressive pals is easy and fun at our web store! Grab your goodies at ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://store.progresstexas.org/⁠⁠⁠⁠. We're loving the troll-free environment at BlueSky! Follow us there at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@progresstexas.bsky.social⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Thanks for listening! Find our web store and other ways to support our important work this election year at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://progresstexas.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

PHARR, Texas - DHR Health has held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new public-private behavioral health facility it is building in north Pharr. The hospital campus will be located at 4800 North Jackson Road in Pharr and will include a new 161,000 square foot building. The City of Pharr is providing the land. Following an appropriation by the Texas Legislature last session, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission is providing a $85 million dollar grant for the state-of-the-art project. The City of Pharr is providing the land. “This morning, we are here to mark a major milestone, a very meaningful step going forward in addressing mental health needs, not only here in the Rio Grande Valley, but throughout the state of Texas,” said Marissa Castañeda, senior executive vice president, at the start of the groundbreaking ceremony. “This day would not be possible without the invaluable support of our partners across the region. We are especially grateful for the City of Pharr. DHR Health's new behavioral hospital will soon be built. This partnership has truly helped bring our vision to life.” Yuri Gonzalez, the City of Pharr's news director agreed. “I'm truly honored to be here representing everybody that works with the great City of Pharr. This project really represents our shared commitment in improving mental health services, but also building a stronger, healthier, more resilient community, and that's what we plan to do,” said Gonzalez, who shared emceeing duties with Castañeda. “I'm truly inspired and seeing our leaders with the City of Pharr and just other great leaders coming together, making sure that this project, but most importantly, that this vision becomes a reality. So once again, congratulations to everyone involved in this great project,” Gonzalez said. DHR Health currently operates an 87-bed inpatient behavioral hospital in Edinburg. The DHR Health Behavioral Hospital will have 100 beds, with a focus on providing a comprehensive approach to mental health care for pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients. The hospital will also house intensive outpatient therapy programs. “What an honor it is for me to stand before you this morning at what I call a transformational change in healthcare that is going on at the greater bedside that is our community. We as physicians are trained to heal and to treat patients and take those powers and knowledge and wisdom to be able to assess and then properly treat an individual mind, body and soul,” said Dr. Carlos Cardenas, MD, chairman of the board of DHR Health, in his remarks from the podium. “Today, we stand at a crossroads. DHR health has been at the forefront of transforming healthcare in South Texas. It has been a transformational journey. One point four million people deserve the same level of healthcare to any other similar sized metropolitan area. And that is us.” Piece by piece, DHR has been adding to the jigsaw puzzle, Cardenas said. “Today, we break ground on a tremendous piece of that puzzle that has come forth as a cooperative, corroborative, public-private venture between DHR Health, the City of Pharr, the State of Texas, and our greater community at large. This is how great things happen. It's how transformation happens.” The new hospital is expected to open in the summer of 2026 and will represent Pharr's first hospital. Pharr Mayor Dr. Ambrosio Hernandez, MD, said the new hospital is “a transformative milestone” for Pharr and the Rio Grande Valley because it will bring critical mental health services directly to the community. Editor's Note: Go to the Rio Grande Guardian website to read the full story.Go to www.riograndeguardian.com to read the latest border news stories and watch the latest news videos.

Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose when you have Adrianne Palicki on the podcast! From Friday Night Lights to The Orville to John Wick and more, she has done it all! Join Sainty & Eric Nelsen every Monday & Fridays on The Glamour & Grit. Found exclusively on Spotify, Apple Podcast & YouTube! * * * This Episode is sponsored by: Texas Health, Cowgirl Museum, Tecovas & Ranch Hand Truck

The Queen. The Legend. HEATHER McMAHAN is on the podcast! Celebrating her release of her comedy special “Breadwinner” on Hulu, we talk everything from the Emmy's Red Carpet to life on the road. The Glamour & Grit: Episode 6! LIVE every Friday at 10am CST & Celebrity Interviews every Monday! * * * This episode is sponsored by Texas Health, Tecovas, Cowgirl Museum, and La Pulga Spirits.

With more than 2.6 million albums sold and over 2.8 billion total streams, Chase Rice has established himself as a powerful force in Nashville and beyond. We are obsessed with his new album Go Down Singin'. Rice's sound continues to evolve to reflect the realities of his life; from emotional reckoning to an admiration of the American West! You can find @theglamourandgrit with @saintynelsen & @ericnelsenofficial on #ApplePodcast, #Spotify & #Youtube! * * * This episode is sponsored by: Texas Health, Cowgirl Museum, La Pulga Spirits & Ranch Hand Truck

Sainty & Eric are back baby!!! Goodbye Summer, Hello Fall and Season 2 of The Glamour & Grit! When we say our guests this season are EPIC, we MEAN it!!! Another season of laughing, crying & learning! Sit back and subscribe baby! Celebrity Episodes every Monday & Live Episodes every Friday. Thank you to our sponsors this season: Texas Health, Cowgirl Museum, Visit Fort Worth, La Pulga Spirits, Ranch Hand Trucks, Clinic Concierge, and Casa Manana.

In this episode of INNOVATORS, Dr. Jennifer Potter's talk offers an in-depth analysis of the enduring and deadly opioid crisis in America, exploring the factors that have sustained this epidemic for decades and assessing recent developments in overdose trends to understand their implications for the future. Originally from Canada, Dr. Potter earned her undergraduate degree from Queen's University, followed by a Master of Public Health from Emory University and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Georgia. She completed her pre-doctoral internship and post-doctoral research fellowship at Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital, where she worked until joining the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. At UT Health San Antonio, Dr. Potter rose through the academic ranks to Full Professor and was appointed Vice President for Research in 2021.  

Dr. Jennifer Shuford, Commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services and an ASTHO Member, discusses her state's updated data dashboards; Dr. Jessica Nelson, Program Director and Epidemiologist with the Minnesota Department of Health, says new urine tests can detect exposure to more than 70 different environmental chemicals; the third convening of the STRETCH 2.0 Initiative will take place on Sept. 18th; and the CDC recently released a national strategy to prevent and control vector-borne diseases in people. Texas Health and Human Services Web Page: New Data Tools Provide Insights on Maternal and Child Health CDC Web Page: Healthy Kids Minnesota – Creating a Better World ASTHO Webinar: Grounding Leadership and Engagement in Psychological Safety to Promote a Culture of Equity CDC Web Page: National Public Health Strategy to Prevent and Control Vector-Borne Diseases in People  

In this episode, we welcome Michelle Alletto, Texas Health and Human Services Chief Program and Services Officer and Academy Fellow, to discuss public health programs contributing to resilience, what good government looks like in the area of resilience, and the importance of intersectoral and intergovernmental relationships. Support the Podcast Today at:donate@napawash.org or 202-347-3190Music Credits: Sea Breeze by Vlad Gluschenko | https://soundcloud.com/vgl9Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_

Can personal experiences with heart disease shape the future of heart surgery? Join me as I sit down with Dr. Danny Ramzy, a groundbreaking minimally invasive heart surgeon, to unravel his inspiring journey in medicine. Driven by his family's history with heart disease, Dr. Ramzy transitioned from classical training to becoming a pioneer in robotic heart surgery. He recounts his first encounter with robotic techniques during his fellowship and how these innovations have revolutionized procedures like unroofing myocardial bridges, offering patients faster recoveries with minimal life disruption. What makes robotic surgery a game-changer in treating myocardial bridges? The conversation shines a spotlight on the meticulous techniques Dr. Ramsey employs to free arteries from muscle encasement and the complexities involved with smaller arteries. We delve into the choice between traditional sternotomy and robotic approaches, underscoring the pivotal role of surgical experience. Dr. Ramsey also introduces us to the latest advancements in robotic surgery, including haptic feedback, which enhances precision and safety, making these procedures more effective than ever. How do we differentiate between benign intramyocardial vessels and pathological myocardial bridges? Our discussion delves into the essential diagnostic protocols and personalized treatments necessary for optimal patient outcomes. Dr. Ramsey clarifies the significant benefits of surgical unroofing for symptomatic patients and highlights the ongoing advancements at McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health in Houston. We'll wrap the episode by acknowledging the vibrant myocardial bridge community and Dr. Ramsey's unwavering dedication to improving patient care and outcomes. To reach Dr. Ramzy's office you can call 713-486-6690 and schedule an appointment for a consultation. Episode Highlight Timestamps (03:21 - 05:18) Robot-Assisted Unroofing for Myocardial Bridges (13:10 - 14:06) Endovascular Unroofing of Arteries (18:11 - 21:55) Myocardial Bridge Unroofing Importance (25:44 - 26:48) Global Advancements in Robotic Surgery (28:39 - 29:53) Consultation Process for Robotic Surgery Episode Chapter Summaries (00:00) Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery Innovations. Dr. Ramzy's journey to becoming a minimally invasive heart surgeon, influenced by family experiences and technology, and his use of robotics for unroofing myocardial bridges. (12:11) Robotic vs. Minimally Invasive Surgery. Unroofing myocardial bridges in LAD artery, considering surgical approach and advancements in robotic surgery for precision and safety. (18:35) Advancements in Robotic Heart Surgery. Myocardial bridges are complex and often misunderstood, but surgical unroofing can benefit symptomatic patients. (29:49) Sharing Stories of Myocardial Bridge. Facebook group supports patients with myocardial bridge, emphasizing accurate diagnosis and ongoing efforts to understand and treat the condition.      

Are you training for the next decade?  Can therapeutic yoga revolutionize the way we approach back pain and functional mobility? Join us for a captivating conversation with Dr. Nydia Tijerina Darby, a physical therapist and therapeutic yoga specialist.  Dr. Darby is always training for the next decade.   Discover how Nydia's passion for movement helped her combat anxiety and depression, setting her on a path to a rewarding career that blends physical therapy and yoga.Nydia Tijerina Darby is a Doctor of Physical Therapy, Therapeutic Yoga Specialist and Certified Yoga Therapist. She is an experienced yoga educator, writer, published author, and international presenter on Therapeutic Yoga Lifestyle practices.     Dr. Darby developed the Therapeutic Astanga Method© over 40 years and is the Owner & Creative Director of the Open Hand Institute and Nydia's Yoga Therapy Studio in San Antonio, Texas. Nydia offers continuing education to clinicians in various fields introducing integrative methods of practicing into their lives and clinical work. She also provides community access to therapeutic yoga through her studio.During our conversation we break down common misconceptions about yoga, challenging the idea that you need to be extremely flexible or fit a certain mold to benefit from its practice. Nydia shares the reasons why she wrote her book "Therapeutic Yoga Works:A Gentle Approach to Eliminating Back Pain and Improving Functional Mobility for Life." Her book is dedicated to making yoga accessible to everyone, emphasizing inclusivity and body positivity. We talk about the gentle yet effective methods she teaches to alleviate back pain and improve functional mobility, all backed by scientific research. Dr. Nydia collaborates with faculty at The University of Texas Health in San Antonio  on scientific research.  Her research, with Dr. Amelie Ramirez, focuses on therapeutic yoga for cancer survivors. Their research found that yoga can be as effective as traditional exercise in improving health outcomes for cancer survivors.  Their study revealed significant improvements in respiratory capacity, mental health, and reduced inflammation. We also talk about the importance of self-care for clinicians and the integration of therapeutic yoga into physical therapy practices.  In 'preparing for the next decade,' Dr. Darby promotes preventative care to achieve holistic health and balance. You can find Dr. Darby's book here:  "THERAPEUTIC YOGA WORKS: A Gentle Approach to Eliminating Back Pain and Improving Functional Mobility for Life."Therapeutic Yoga Lifestyle Immersions, Therapeutic Yoga Trainings & Medical Continuing Education.  The Open Hand Institute.  You can watch some of Dr. Nydia's videos on her YouTube channels: https://www.youtube.com/@openhandinstitutehttps://www.youtube.com/@NydiasYogaTherapyhttps://nydiasyogatherapy.com/ Online scheduling for on-site and livestream classes and video on demandhttps://app.ubindi.com/Nydia.DarbyThanks for listening! Please send me your feedback in a text message -

In the seventh episode of season 3, Dr. U. Grant Baldwin, Jr., DBH, Director of the Doctor of Behavioral Health program at Cummings Graduate Institute for Behavioral Health Studies, explores the behavioral health continuum of care, which entails prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery services. This episode discusses how the current behavioral health system faces challenges such as fragmented care, lack of access, and stigma. Additionally, presents considerations for how digital behavioral health solutions, including telemedicine, mobile apps, and online therapy platforms can mitigate these challenges. Special Guest: Trina K. Ita, MA, LPC is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) & holds a Bachelor's in psychology from Tuskegee University and Master's in Counselor Education - Community/Agency Counseling from Kean University. She has worked in behavioral health for over 30 years holding a variety of leadership roles in the private & public sectors to include provision of services in private practice. She formerly worked in the child welfare system in Texas as Chief Strategist for Behavioral Health Services for Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) and is now serving as the Deputy Executive Commissioner of Behavioral Health Services for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC). In this role she has the responsibility for the behavioral health continuum of care for adults and youth and the array of service offerings funded by the Texas Legislature (i.e. prevention, intervention, treatment, substance use, veterans behavioral health, disaster behavioral health, etc.) as well as responsibility and oversight on the administration of the Community Mental Health Services Block Grant (MHBG) and the Substance Use Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Services Block Grant (SUPTRS BG or SUBG). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/disruptors-at-work/support

Tune in to the latest episode of the Becker's Healthcare Podcast, recorded live at our 14th Annual Meeting, where we delve into insightful discussions with industry experts. Join Laura Massey, Chief Nursing Officer at Texas Health Plano, as they share invaluable insights on leadership, growth strategies, and navigating workforce challenges in healthcare. Gain actionable advice and best practices to elevate your organization's performance in today's dynamic landscape.

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Yesterday's historic eclipse reminds us how far solar power infrastructure has come in Texas: https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/eclipse-overshadows-texas-solar-power-strength-2024-04-08/ A group of nine Houston-area state lawmakers are calling for a public hearing about potential violations of state law by Houstpn ISD, still under TEA control: https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/education/article/texas-hisd-violations-19391789.php Hundreds of Texas seniors have recently been overcharged on their Social Security checks by a Texas Health and Human Services Commission clerical error: https://www.newsweek.com/texas-seniors-error-medicare-coverage-benefits-1888195 Texas mom Amanda Zurawski, who nearly died due to the denial of essential abortion care by state law, is featured in a new Biden campaign ad: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4582134-new-biden-campaign-ad-blames-trump-for-near-death-of-texas-woman-who-was-denied-abortion/ ...While the Biden administration dedicates another $6 billion to Samsung for microchip plant development in Taylor, Texas: https://www.reuters.com/technology/samsung-get-6-7-billion-chip-subsidy-next-week-texas-expansion-sources-say-2024-04-08/ Progress Texas invites progressive candidates to share their views with us - which we'll then share with our statewide audience - via our Certified Progressive questionnaire: https://progresstexas.org/blog/progress-texas-certified-progressives-2024-progressive-values-questionnaire Instagram users: be sure to enable political content on that platform, which has begun opting users out: https://x.com/ProgressTX/status/1771276124498100667?s=20 Thanks for listening! Find our web store and other ways to support our important work this election year at https://progresstexas.org/.

In today's episode, join offsetkeyz and guest Hot Girl Farmer as we delve into the complexities of Texas's new Age Verification Law (HB 1181) and PH's bold response. We explore the implications for privacy, data security, and censorship, bringing to light the challenges and debates sparked by this legislation. Discover insights from key sources, including the official Texas bill, critical analysis from the Washington Post, and research on the claims surrounding adult content and public health. Texas Bill HB 1181: https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HB01181H.htm Scrubs Reference: https://youtu.be/c_o8vYUU-jo?si=MEqNmvs32MBeltI5 Washington Post Article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/15/pornhub-texas-age-verification-law/ Public Health Claims Analysis: https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2019.305498 Texas Age Verification Law, PH, privacy, data security, censorship, Hot Girl Farmer, HB 1181, digital rights, adult content regulation, podcast episode, legal challenges, public health claims Search Phrases: Texas Age Verification Law podcast PH response to Texas law HB 1181 implications and discussion Privacy and censorship in digital age podcast Understanding Texas's adult content regulation Legal challenges to age verification laws podcast Exploring PH's stand against Texas law Public health claims against adult content podcast episode Data security concerns in age verification laws Transcript: Pornhub Episode [00:00:00] offsetkeyz: Alright, welcome back to the Daily Decrypt. Today we're joined by Hot Girl Farmer, and we're just covering one topic, the Texas Age Verification Law that passed back in June, and P.0.r.N.HU8's response. Now, this topic is vast and covers a lot of facets that the Daily Decrypt and its audience are interested in, such as data protection, such as censorship, all of these things. And so we're just going to be focusing on this one topic for the whole episode. And though it does revolve around P.0.r.N.HU8 as a company which inherently involves adult content, we won't be going into any sort of graphic detail or anything like that. There may be mention of certain things that go on on this website, but nothing too crazy. But if you're sensitive to The type of content P.0.r.N.HU8 provides, it might be in your best interest to skip this episode. Though we don't encourage it because it's going to be pretty juicy. [00:01:00] Okay, so on June 6th of last year, Texas Governor [00:01:07] offsetkeyz: Greg Abbott signed into law a requirement that any website that displays adult content must verify the consumer's age before they can see the content. So that was, what, nine, ten months ago? Which, [00:01:23] HGF: immediately I thought of when you go to an alcohol website and it asks you for your birthday. So I was like, oh, verification would be good. And nobody wants children to view P.0.r.N.Ography, literally no one wants that. And I would think most people also think it's best to be consumed over the age of 18. I was like, okay, I don't really understand the controversy yet. I feel like people can get on board with verifying your birthday. [00:01:48] offsetkeyz: Right, and if it was just that enter your birthday verification style, It might not be as big of an issue, but the law itself required more stringent data [00:02:00] verification, such as entering in your data on a third party site that then verifies your identity, but you know what data they require. We're not entirely sure or entering in a credit card number or entering in information from your mortgage or like very. poking and prodding for this data. So that was signed into law. Immediately a group of plaintiffs, one of which was P.0.r.N.HU8, sued the state of Texas for censorship. Fine. Just last week, the state of Texas and the Fifth Circuit sided with the law that Governor Greg Abbott put into place requiring age verification. And so P.0.r.N.HU8 decided to take its service offline in the state of Texas as a protest. P.0.r.N.HU8. is not against age verification. So I'm just going to get that out of the way up front. P.0.r.N.HU8 is very pro age verification, but they're pro age verification in ways that make sense and don't [00:03:00] censor users and don't hurt people. Don't put people's data at risk. They want it to be a streamlined process. They want it to at least be accurate. know, At this point, it's more of a formality than it is an accurate way of verifying age. [00:03:15] HGF: Yeah, the methods that were available were not potentially secure or divulge too much information. Like a lot of personal private data from a third party site, right? [00:03:25] offsetkeyz: Right. And you can imagine that if you are someone of the age that should not be consuming adult content, which I believe is anyone under 18 across the country? I'm a little older than 18, uh, so I don't really know firsthand. Doesn't affect me, I don't have kids, but I don't know. You could get your parent's credit card and enter it in. There's not going to be any charges. It's just a verification method. You could go into your parent's filing cabinet and get your parent's mortgage. You could get the deed to their house and enter in [00:04:00] information off of that. You could go sneak out and grab your parent's driver's license, which is another form of verification that they're allowing, which all you have to do is enter in your driver's license number. And you're verified. Not only is this method unsafe, for reasons we'll get into shortly, but it's not accurate. And that is what P.0.r.N.HU8 is protesting. Not age verification. I just want to be very clear about that, that regardless of whether or not you, agree with P.0.r.N.HU8 fundamentally for what it does. It is my opinion that they're not doing anything malicious by protesting age verification laws. They are pro age verification, anti this method. [00:04:43] HGF: Yeah. And, yeah. this is just not a good barrier to entry. I can totally see minors like in a group chat being like, this is the driver's license number I use. So I think this would lead to a lot more of your data being stolen and [00:05:00] misused by minors to gain access. It just, I'm not extremely familiar with the verification methods that, Texas is wanting to see, but I think it would lead to, more data theft. Of adults to minors. Like if I was still teaching in high schools, I would be so, I don't think I'd bring my ID in the building just because I wouldn't want them to look at it. And I mean, kids, kids will do anything to do what they want to do [00:05:26] offsetkeyz: Of course. Yeah, they know you have a driver's license, you drove to work, they know it's probably in your purse. They know you're walking around the classroom. So like they have if someone wants to find an adult's driver's license this law only encourages crime. It's not put in place to protect the safety of minors, though that's how it's masquerading. It's actually trying to remove P.0.r.N.Ography from the internet, which is a crime. Censorship. Regardless of how you feel about P.0.r.N.Ography, removing [00:06:00] P.0.r.N.Ography from the internet is censorship, and we don't stand for censorship. And if the P.0.r.N.Ography is requiring driver's licenses, the value of driver's licenses has gone up, encouraging crime. [00:06:13] HGF: This is just getting so in the weeds. This is just creating so many, this is opening a can of worms of issues that we are not prepared for, and the creativity it'll take and the different avenues people will get information they need to log in. I don't even think we can conceptualize it yet. So, good on P.0.r.N.HU8 for taking a stand and pulling their site from Texas. They're like, [00:06:35] offsetkeyz: They're [00:06:36] HGF: this is too much. We're not dealing with this. [00:06:38] offsetkeyz: 100 percent and yeah, we don't want an official stance to be that we stand with P.0.r.N.HU8, but we do agree with what they're doing in this avenue. [00:06:47] HGF: Anyone that takes user data seriously, we stand with, yeah, in that instance. [00:06:55] offsetkeyz: If you're going to enable age verification, make sure that it actually [00:07:00] verifies the age of the consumers. So, what P.0.r.N.HU8 is proposing, and what they've been proposing for years and years and years, is what's called device based age verification. Most people, at least in first world countries, like, United States and Canada and Europe and I don't know, have a device that's tied to their identity, whether that be a phone, whether that be an iPad, whether that be a laptop. And imagine if Your iPhone when you turned it on, verified what age you are. You only have to do that once and all that data stayed on your phone. It didn't go to the cloud. Yeah, it stayed on your phone, which you own. But using signatures and verification methods, your iPhone could then communicate just your age, which has been verified to you. to the site saying, Hey, yeah, this person is actually such and such age. And that's all they're, that's all they're going for. They [00:08:00] want to make sure that when age verification is implemented, it's implemented to actually verify the user's age. [00:08:05] HGF: Yeah, I think this is an issue left up to parental controls and just different [00:08:11] offsetkeyz: methods [00:08:12] HGF: methods within the device itself, and it creates a whole host of problems when we have that transferred over to third party identifying platforms. [00:08:24] offsetkeyz: The other main issue with this is that Texas is allowing for third party sites to step in and verify people's age. So, sounds great on the surface, but what it actually is, is you're just giving your data to more sites. There are very reputable sites out there that keep your data, quote, secure. id. me is one that comes to mind. That's to verify your entire identity, and it requires you to enter in a lot of information. your social security number, your driver's license number, credit cards, former addresses, all [00:09:00] kinds of data that is now with some third party site. First of all, P.0.r.N.HU8 users probably don't want their entire identity linked to their P.0.r.N.HU8 account. And nor should it be! It's just videos. It's is your whole identity linked to your YouTube account? Maybe, but should it be? Doesn't matter. I should be able to log onto YouTube and just look at things. That also increases the risk of that data being captured by the wrong people. The more you enter in these sensitive pieces of data across the internet, the risk increases exponentially with every site. And so with giving third parties this power to verify ages, opens up the door for scams. Right? Especially In the nature of the product that P.0.r.N.HU8 offers, there's somewhat of a sense of urgency when consuming it. And now all of a sudden you have to go to this third party site to [00:10:00] verify your age. So maybe you go to Google and you say age verification site, and you type that in. And the first thing that comes up is an ad for an age verification site. that looks good. And so you go to that, it says, yes, compatible with P.0.r.N.HU8. You enter in your social security number. And hey, turns out that was a scam site, but you were moving so quickly that you just went right for it. And you might not even notice that was a scam site. You might just be like, okay, it's not working. Let me try another site. And you might just keep going down the line until one works. You don't want to be haphazardly handling this type of data because it can end very poorly. [00:10:37] HGF: Yeah, people aren't in the frame of mind to be just extremely discerning. [00:10:43] offsetkeyz: Right. I'm trying to think of an example of something else where this might be the case. Like alcohol. [00:10:50] HGF: hungry. Ooh, when you're really hungry. She [00:10:53] offsetkeyz: she resonates with the gong of the Taco Bell. Fourth meal is very prevalent here in our [00:11:00] household. [00:11:00] HGF: If I'm hungry, it's just like, DoorDash, order here, 3 off, da da da da da. I'm just typing in whatever. I'm hungry. Anything your human desire is being driven to act. you're just not taking precautionary steps. [00:11:15] offsetkeyz: Great example so I know certain individuals don't have DoorDash, they've never used DoorDash, and they've always been able to find their food when they need it. But say they run into a situation in a snowstorm, and they have a flat tire, and they go download, or they go to Google and they search for DoorDash and they're trying to get someone to deliver them food and what they get is an ad that is not actually DoorDash. They sign up for an account on this fake site with their address and with their phone number and with their credit card information and all this stuff only to find out that isn't actually, you know, it's that sense of urgency that really dulls your perception of these fake sites. [00:11:58] HGF: that's concerning for [00:12:00] users. But yeah, our caveman brains, the way they're wired, anything that's creating a need and sense of urgency is just, we're gonna overlook things, [00:12:13] offsetkeyz: Alright, so we've touched on a lot of how we feel about this, but I want to take a step back and read a little bit from the Washington Post's reporting on the ruling and on P.0.r.N.HU8's reaction. So this is coming from the Washington Post, likely will be one of the first search results if you even search for any of the search terms. So P.0.r.N.HU8, one of the most popular websites in the world, blocked Texas based access. To its site, one week after the conservative U. S. Court of Appeals of the Fifth Circuit upheld the age verification portion of the state law. So P.0.r.N.HU8 has previously opposed such measures in states like Utah, arguing that age gating laws are ineffective, as we discussed, unfair, and punish the very [00:13:00] users the state wants to protect. For a myriad of reasons, right? And we've touched on a few. But it can harm people in so many different ways. Let's keep reading. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton called the decision a victory over P.0.r.N. Companies and denied the state's law violates free speech laws, but free expression advocates, including those in the adult content industry, Warned that laws like the one in Texas are being weaponized to censor a variety of content, including reproductive rights, resources, and queer literature. [00:13:33] HGF: That's what I was saying. [00:13:35] offsetkeyz: It is reminding me a little bit of what's going on with TikTok as well. The fact that we can ban a content streaming platform because it's owners are from a different country is crazy. And hey, actually turns out we can't ban a content platform. We literally cannot do that. All we can do is place laws on other areas around it. So the [00:14:00] same tactics are being taken with age verification in Texas as they are with TikTok across the country, as they are with Things like abortion, like, hey, we might be able, might not be able to ban abortion, but we can find the crap out of doctors who perform it. [00:14:15] HGF: Yeah. Overarching, all of those have themes of some sort of censorship. In June, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law HB1181, a bipartisan bill requiring companies that offer sexual material harmful to minors verify that its users are at least 18 years old. Companies that need to limit minors access, such as websites for liquor brands, commonly use age gating methods such as requiring a user to list their birthday. Texas's law required users to prove their age by either entering information from a government issued ID or using a third party system that uses public and private data such as employment, education, or mortgage information to verify age. [00:14:56] offsetkeyz: [00:15:00] of data that people can use to verify their age. They can use anything, any document laying around their parent's house to verify their age. Cool, very effective guys. [00:15:13] HGF: This is also, this might be getting too into the weeds and not as cyber security related, but I'm just curious. I need to look at this more. How many studies do we have showing that it causes irreparable harm to people's psyche? Like it says that right here, it says, HB 1181 also required P.0.r.N. Sites to display a controversial health warning, which the law's opponents called pseudoscientific and included language like Texas Health and Human Services Warning. P.0.r.N.Ography increases the demand for prostitution, child exploitation, and child P. It says that in the warning. Do we have the data to back that up? That it's a gateway to other illicit sexual consumption? Jen? [00:15:55] offsetkeyz: skeptical [00:15:55] HGF: I'm a little bit skeptical that we have data that P.0.r.N.Ography increases [00:16:00] the demand for child p. pornography. more you work with data, the more you realize that you can make this type of data look however you want it to look, but when it comes down to it, P.0.r.N.Ography is adjacent to child [00:16:13] offsetkeyz: p sexual crimes, and sexual crimes are adjacent. You know, Child p is a subset of P.0.r.N.Ography and without P.0.r.N.Ography, there's no demand for child p. It reminds me of a joke. I'm trying to remember who said it. But the joke is, I think it's Scrubs. Oh boy, [00:16:37] HGF: Oh [00:16:37] offsetkeyz: I'm back on scrubs Dr. Cox is talking about how They're trying to ban P.0.r.N.Ography from the web, and if they do ban P.0.r.N.Ography, there will only be one website left, and it will be called Bring Back the P.0.r.N.Ography. Regardless of whether or not we ban P.0.r.N.Ography, there's gonna be a demand for it. [00:16:57] HGF: Yeah. I bet you could skew [00:17:00] data to say that without it there's increased violence toward women. [00:17:04] offsetkeyz: Mm hmm. [00:17:06] HGF: hmm. Like, the repression creates more issues. I just think that you can skew data any way you like. I'm very skeptical that there's a verified study that Consuming content on P.0.r.N.HU8 increases demand for child p. pornography. [00:17:23] offsetkeyz: Mm hmm. [00:17:23] HGF: That's wild. That, the [00:17:25] offsetkeyz: they surveying? [00:17:26] HGF: the state is just publishing that. It's not citing, in the warning, it's not citing any specific clinical trials or studies. I just feel like we're, the age of the internet, we have access to a lot. We have access to a lot of information and articles. And it's hard to be discerning what's true or what's not, and that's why we really need to rely on peer reviewed, verified, studied information. [00:17:55] offsetkeyz: We do. Our little lizard brains are likely to believe whatever we [00:18:00] hear. And so we're going to do our part on this podcast and drop a lot of links in the show notes below, and we really encourage you to go in and read them for yourselves, not just believe what we're saying on this podcast. If you keep reading Hot Girl Farmer, you will see that the court, the Fifth Circuit, uh, of appeals denied the health label. So, So they sided with requiring age verification, but they did deny forcing adult websites to have this health label on them. Thank goodness, probably for the reasons that you mentioned, but we will verify that in the show notes as well. [00:18:39] HGF: Okay. Well, that's good. [00:18:40] offsetkeyz: I wonder, I You can spin anything, any way you want. There was another comedian that I watched the other day because of daylight savings time. [00:18:52] HGF: Yikes! Yeah, it's been kicking my ass. [00:18:54] offsetkeyz: Where, It's all about how you spin it, right? If the government came on and they're like, Hey, you're going to actually have to be at work an [00:19:00] hour earlier tomorrow, and you're going to have to wake up an hour earlier. It's going to be dark, and it's going to be light when you try to go to bed, like all these things. Everyone would be like, no, but instead the government's just like, Hey, you know what? Just once a year, we think it'd be cute if we just set our clocks back an hour. Everyone's like, I guess. Yeah, sounds great. So the attorney general is saying. This is a victory, but imagine if P.0.r.N.HU8 had an office in San Antonio, the capital of Texas, that employed 100, 000 people. Imagine that! Now all those people are out of a job! Is that a victory? You're, yeah. You're actually shutting down jobs for one of the top websites on the internet. Like Facebook is up there, Google's up there, and P.0.r.N.HU8 is up there, and you are shutting down jobs. Doesn't sound like a victory to me, governor. [00:19:55] HGF: Yeah, it just is from what angle is this a victory? With the ease of use of VPNs, [00:20:00] I, most people know how to use them and get around this age verification anyway. So I would say people that, that want to go on the site can still go on the site. You have to be like 2 percent tech savvy to use the VPN. And then I still think it's going to encourage minors to commit data theft. And so I wouldn't really call this a victory, , if you're against. this site. [00:20:24] offsetkeyz: Yeah, instead maybe work with them. They have really good ideas and they have a lot of resources to implement those ideas. They have a lot of money, and so if P.0.r.N.HU8 is willing to work with the state of Texas to develop state of the art proprietary age verification methods, why not do that? You're like actually saying no to innovation. Where you could have maybe a patent tied to your name that helps keep P.0.r.N. Out, like actually helps keep P.0.r.N. Out of the eyes of minors, but instead you're just encouraging lying, cheating, and stealing new dark [00:21:00] markets to pop up so maybe think about that. [00:21:02] HGF: This is a weird haphazard band aid that just creates more problems. This is not the solution that they're looking for. And again, no one wants miners to consume this. And I just, we really think that age verification on the device itself is secure and a good way to go. [00:21:21] offsetkeyz: Absolutely, and P.0.r.N.HU8 does not disagree either. [00:21:36] offsetkeyz: So we've covered a lot. Of our thoughts and our feelings, as well as what's actually happening in the state of Texas and with the state of P.0.r.N.HU8 and censorship and data laws. And just to recap, I want to go over what happened again timeline wise, but there was one more point that the Washington Post article makes, [00:22:00] and that is that P.0.r.N.HU8 is potentially the most reputable of sites to consume adult content. They take the privacy of not only the creators, but the users very seriously. They take complaints very seriously. They're not, they're filtering out their content so that nothing illegal is on there. They're doing a lot of good things. They're making sure that when you watch these videos, there's no way for bad actors to embed malware. They have firewalls. They have anti malware. Like I said, they have all these protections because they're the most reputable of sites. So now these measures have caused P.0.r.N.HU8 to take their services off. Offline in Texas, but what are people who are seeking adult content going to do from there? They're going to go look for other websites that maybe aren't as reputable. Maybe have more sketchy content because it's not being filtered like child p or a [00:23:00] list of other kinds of things and might be laden with malware or downloadable whatever. Like if you click on a link in one of these sites maybe it redirects quickly to something and you're infected. Making these requirements are only fiscally achievable by companies that have the resources to achieve them. Like the age verification is what I'm talking about here. P.0.r.N.HU8, I don't know any other reputable sites, but they would all have the means to implement these things. So, people who are blocked by age verification will now start going to sites that don't have the means to implement age verification. And those sites are much more likely to have malware and lurkers and inappropriate content. So thanks to the Washington Post, they, I mean, they didn't bring up all that, but they brought up a little bit of it. So thanks for bringing up that point. There's just, where's the good? [00:23:55] HGF: Yeah. [00:23:56] offsetkeyz: All I see is bad. [00:23:57] HGF: We get what they're going for, but [00:24:00] this is just not achieving that at all, unfortunately. [00:24:02] offsetkeyz: And it's actually a step in the wrong direction. So any of my Texas people who back this bill, you might think it's a step in the right direction, even if it's not solving all the problems, it's actually a step in the wrong direction due to all the reasons listed in this episode, is a step backwards. So you're actually shooting yourself in the foot. So just to recap, in June, Texas passed a law requiring any website that displays adult content to be disabled. Verify the consumer's age using pretty in depth methods, not just enter in your birthday like they do on liquor sites. A bunch of people, P.0.r.N.HU8 one of them, sues the state of Texas over censorship laws. Just last week, the courts in Texas sided with the state of Texas and P.0.r.N.HU8, in reaction to this ruling, pulled their services from the state of Texas. You can no longer access the website P.0.r.N.HU8 in the state of Texas. P.0.r.N.HU8 is pro age verification. They are very for [00:25:00] it, but they want it to actually verify age and not just attempt to censor content. And we think that the state of Texas, the government of the United States, should work with companies like this to implement effective age verification using any method. This is where creativity comes into play. We need to find a method that will effectively verify users age, not just verify that they have access to documents that verify somebody's age. And they need to work together to make sure That's what's implemented. Not taking these half assed, band aid approaches that actually hurt the people they're trying to protect. [00:25:39] HGF: Yeah, thank you guys for tuning in with us to discuss this pretty controversial, really interesting topic. This is really interesting to us. There's a lot of nuance in here. There's a lot of gray area, which is something that I enjoy to discuss. And so thanks for sticking with us, keeping an open mind, and just, we're just trying to focus on the [00:26:00] facts, the law, what's going on, and keeping you guys up to date with cyber news. And this one just came up and feels pretty pressing to discuss. [00:26:08] offsetkeyz: There's definitely some other things in the news that we're going to touch on tomorrow, but yeah, thank you for giving us the opportunity to talk about this. We threw a lot at you and that is just to get thinking about reasons this bill might be good or this bill might be bad. Whatever, you are entitled to making your own opinion. Again, we encourage you to check out the resources we're providing in the show notes and to think for yourself. Thanks so much for listening to the Daily Decrypt. Thanks for Hot Girl Farmer for being here on this, and we will talk to you some more tomorrow. [00:26:36] HGF: See you guys. [00:27:00] [00:28:00]

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It's Thursday, December 28th, A.D. 2023. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard at www.TheWorldview.com. I'm Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com) By Jonathan Clark Muslim Nigerian terrorists continue to target Christians As we reported yesterday, armed Muslim groups killed dozens of people in Nigeria's central Plateau State over the weekend. The death toll has risen to nearly 200 now in the predominantly Christian area. The attacks started on Christmas Eve and continued through yesterday. Terrorists killed church pastors and destroyed hundreds of homes. A local resident told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News, “These terrorists who attacked these Christian communities were in the hundreds, and they carried out the attacks as the hapless Christians were preparing for Christmas programs lined up by their pastors.” Church leaders in Nigeria believe Muslim herdsmen are targeting Christians for their land and to impose Islam. 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