Podcasts about Virology

TWiV reviews cuts in National Science Foundation budgets, cuts to Harvard University grants, judge blocks ban on Harvard enrolling international students, DOGE ordered cuts of NIH grants, endemic coronavirus infection induces Fc receptor binding antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, and inherited IFNAR1 deficiency causing adverse reactions to measles and yellow fever infectious vaccines. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Angela Mingarelli Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV NSF funding cut to lowest level (NY Times) 1,000 grants cut at Harvard University (Nature) Administration ban on international students at Harvard blocked (CNN) DOGE killed NIH grants (Nature) Endemic coronavirus infection induces FcR binding antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 (J Virol) IFNAR1 deficiency and severe reaction to measles and yellow fever vaccines (J Exp Med) Letters read on TWiV 1221 Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Weekly Picks Angela – Contact lenses that give people infrared vision — even with their eyes shut (one, two) Alan –  Autocrats are afraid of you – see the graphic, especially. Vincent – How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello debate the changes in FDA vaccine approval policy especially how it is applied to COVID-19 vaccines and restricts vaccine availability/usage and Novavax's vaccine, mpox on surfaces and in the air, “bird flu”, 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 Wasterwater Scan dashboard, the high number of childhood deaths during this “flu” season, the May 22 VRBPAC COVID-19 vaccine meeting, where to find PEMGARDA, prolonged steroid and antibiotic therapies, provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center's long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, cognitive impairment in 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 FDA to issue new vaccine approval guidance amid questions over coronavirus shots (Washington Post) FDA vaccine committee meeting(Reuters) Evidence-based approach to COVID-19 vaccination (NEJM) FDA CBER townhall: new COVID019 vaccination approval mechanism (YouTube) FDA poised to restrict access to COVID vaccines, our own Dr. Griffin is cited! (NY Times) Novavax approval letter (FDA) We giveth and taketh away: Novavax approved but restricted use (AP News) FDA approves Novavax COVID vaccine with stricter new conditions (NY Times) History behind public health falsehoods– vaccine and autism (NPR) Making vaccines less accessible-RFK Jr making MAHA! (PBS News Hour) Kenneday says DO NOT to take medical advice from him, the HHS secretary…hummmm (NY Times) Staying up to date with COVID-19 vaccines (CDC: COVID-19) How science lost America's trust and surrendered health policy to skeptics (WSJ) HHS stops recommendation of COVID-19 shots for children and pregnant women (Reuters) No more routine COVID-19 vaccines for children and pregnant women (WSJ) House to investigate Pfizer for allegedly delaying COVID-19 vaccines (Reuters) Statement on the antigen composition of COVID-19 vaccines (WHO) WHO advisers say current strains OK for COVID vaccine production (CIDRAP) We can't remain indifferent to suffering: Catholic Church now champions HPV vaccination (DailyNation) Air and surface sampling for mpox in UK (Eurosurveillance) Researchers report mpox DNA, live virus on surfaces and in air from patients' rooms(CIDRAP) USDA reported H5N1 bird flu detection in wild birds (CDC: Avian Influenza) USDA reported H5N1 in poultry (CDC: Avian Influenza) HPAI Confirmed Cases in Livestock(USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspections Service) H5 bird flu: current situation (CDC: Avian Influenza) Bird flu (CDC: Avian Influenza) Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Rubeola) 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) 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) 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) 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) The clinical impact of prolonged steroid therapy in severe COVID-19 patients (BMC Pulmonary Medicine) Anticoagulation guidelines (hematology.org) Antibiotic Treatment in Patients Hospitalized for Nonsevere COVID-19 (JAMA Network Open) Daniel Griffin's evidence based medical practices for long COVID (OFID) Long COVID hotline (Columbia : Columbia University Irving Medical Center) The answers: Long COVID Self-reported health, neuropsychological tests and biomarkers in fully recovered COVID-19 patients vs patients with post-COVID cognitivesymptoms (PLoS One) Vortioxetine for Cognitive Impairment in Major Depressive Disorder During Post-COVID Syndrome (Journal of Clincial Psychiatrist) Reaching out to US house representative Letters read on TWiV 1220 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.

Confused by the daily deluge of medical studies in the news that are often built on faulty science, yet imply great harm to your health?Researcher, podcaster and former Army captain Alec Zeck joins Paul in a wide-ranging conversation about the serious lack of critical thinking and reasoning skills whenever science, health and medicine are discussed this week on Spirit Gym. Learn more about Alec and his work at The Way Forward website and on social media via Facebook, Twitter/X, YouTube and Instagram here and here.Listen to The Way Forward podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download them. Watch The End of COVID series of videos here.Timestamps3:44 A meeting with Dr. Kelly Brogan changed the trajectory of Alec's family forever.7:32 We live in the necessary and purposeful appearance of duality.15:37 Do you believe in pantheism or panentheism?20:52 The fallacy of flood draws.28:24 Thinking and seeking truth by means of falsification.34:38 Who is the expert?46:11 What is real pseudoscience?51:26 Gain of function research.1:09:52 Epidemiological-based models are flawed to their core.1:22:05 The major problems with modern medicine.1:29:18 The human biofield.1:38:10 “Our body is the most incredible, beautiful, brilliant, intelligently designed thing that has ever existed in this realm.”1:51:41 The most important impact on a human being's psyche.2:03:47 Discerning facts from fiction.2:14:31 The Cartman drama triangle.ResourcesViroliegyA Farewell to Virology by Dr. Mark BaileyThe Neti neti principleFind more resources for this episode on our website.Music Credit: Meet Your Heroes (444Hz) by Brave as BearsAll Rights Reserved MusicFit Records 2024Thanks to our awesome sponsors:PaleovalleyBIOptimizers US and BIOptimizers UK PAUL10Organifi CHEK20Wild PasturesCHEK Institute Spring ATP SaleHerbal Alchemy WorkshopPaul's Preferred Products We may earn commissions from qualifying purchases using affiliate links.

TWiV reviews pause in the use of Chikungunya vaccine, HHS to stop recommending COVID shots for pregnant women and children, molecular basis for shifted receptor recognition by an encephalitic alphavirus, and evolution of koala retrovirus transcriptional silencing in wild koalas. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, and Rich Condit Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV Pause in use of Ixchiq (FDA) Change in COVID vaccine recommendations (STAT) Basis for receptor shift in encephalitic alphavirus (Cell) Transcriptional silencing of koala retrovirus (Cell) Letters read on TWiV 1219 Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Weekly Picks Rich – What's that stuff in your bellybutton? Science has the answer. Vincent – New study reveals our skin's own bacteria can help protect us from the bad effects of sunlight Listener Pick Rona – My Italian secret: the forgotten heroes and Italy and the Holocaust Foundation, Inc. Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

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.

Aseem Malhotra is a deeply controversial British doctor who has just been appointed as Chief Medical Adviser of the Make America Healthy Again campaign group co-founded by Donald Trump's health secretary Robert F Kennedy Junior. It makes him one of the US Health Secretary's most influential medical advisers - and that's alarming doctors and academics around the world, because Aseem Malhotra, like RFK JR, goes against mainstream, established opinion on many topics. Most controversially he opposes the MRNA covid vaccines, claiming they cause more harm than good, and wants to end their use in America, even though people are still dying with Covid around the world. In the UK hundreds of people are dying with covid every month yet Dr Malhotra claims the virus is no longer deadly. He also supports RFK Junior's decision to reinvestigate discredited claims of a link between vaccines and autism, amid alarming levels of vaccine scepticism in America, and outbreaks of deadly measles. For the latest episode of The Fourcast Krishnan Guru-Murthy talks to Dr Malhotra, but we also examine his claims and scrutinise them by hearing from Stephen Griffin, Professor of Virology at Leeds University - who is a leading scientist in Britain and believes claims being made by Dr Malhotra and RFK Junior are not just wrong but dangerous. Produced by Calum Fraser, Alice Wagstaffe, Georgina Lee, Rob Thomson.

TWiV reviews new CBER chief at FDA, ending of Gates Foundation in 2045, gain of function executive order, origins of bat viruses ancestral to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2, and single dose Sudan virus replicon vaccine protects guinea pigs from disease. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV Prasad replaces Marks at FDA (US News) Gates Foundation ends 2025 (Gates Foundation) Gain of function Executive Order (White House) DURC policy (HHS) Origins of bat viruses ancestral to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 (Cell) Sudan virus replicon vaccine (Nat Comm) Letters read on TWiV 1217 Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Weekly Picks Rich – Andor Season 2 Alan – Sequencing Mendel's pea plant traits, and a good Science news article on the work Vincent – 2023 summer warmth unparalleled over the past 2,000 years Listener Pick Brian – Virology Capabilities Test (VCT): A Multimodal Virology Q&A Benchmark Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@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.

Claire Concannon sits down with Professor Jemma Geoghegan, winner of the Prime Minister's Te Puiaki Whakapā Pūtaiao Science Communication Prize, to chat about Covid-19, bird flu and her virology lab.

Executive Order on Gain of Function Research: President Trump issued an executive order restricting federal funding for gain of function research, which involves experimenting with viruses and pathogens that could potentially trigger a pandemic. The order aims to prevent US tax dollars from funding such research in countries like China and Iran, and strengthens oversight mechanisms to ensure biomedical research is conducted safely. The controversy around gain of function research became prominent during the COVID-19 pandemic, with theories suggesting the virus might have originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Self-Deportation Program: The Trump administration introduced a program offering $1,000 and travel assistance to undocumented immigrants who voluntarily leave the United States. This initiative aims to save government resources, as deporting an undocumented immigrant costs approximately $17,000. The program uses the CBP home app for migrants to register and self-deport, with the stipend paid once their departure is confirmed. Trade Negotiations: We mention ongoing trade negotiations between the US and Canada, following Canada's federal elections. President Trump is also engaging in trade talks with China, aiming to address tariffs and improve trade relations. Media Coverage and Public Reaction: We highlight media reactions to Trump's policies, noting that pro-immigration advocates are critical of the self-deportation program. It also mentions the media's struggle to criticize the executive order on gain of function research due to its perceived benefits. Please Hit Subscribe to this podcast Right Now. Also Please Subscribe to the Ben Ferguson Show Podcast and Verdict with Ted Cruz Wherever You get You're Podcasts. Thanks for Listening #seanhannity #hannity #marklevin #levin #charliekirk #megynkelly #tucker #tuckercarlson #glennbeck #benshapiro #shapiro #trump #sexton #bucksexton#rushlimbaugh #limbaugh #whitehouse #senate #congress #thehouse #democrats#republicans #conservative #senator #congressman #congressmen #congresswoman #capitol #president #vicepresident #POTUS #presidentoftheunitedstatesofamerica#SCOTUS #Supremecourt #DonaldTrump #PresidentDonaldTrump #DT #TedCruz #Benferguson #Verdict #maga #presidenttrump #47 #the47morningupdate #donaldtrump #trump #news #trumpnews #Benferguson #breaking #breakingnews #morningupdateYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@VerdictwithTedCruzSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

President Trump just signed another slew of executive orders. The latest is an order to improve the safety and security of biological research in the United States and around the world. Here's what it does. ▪ Ends any present and all future federal funding of dangerous gain of functionresearch in countries of concern like China and Iran and in foreign nationsdeemed to have insufficient research oversight. ▪ Prohibits federal funding from contributing to foreign research likely to causeanother pandemic. ▪ These measures will drastically reduce the potential for lab related incidentsinvolving gain-of-function research, like that conducted on bat coronaviruses inChina by the EcoHealth Alliance and Wuhan Institute of Virology. This has been a huge issue for Wellness Company doctors. The Wellness Company prides itself on pushing back against censorship and tyranny. It's why it has developed a series of prescription drug medical emergency kits including a parasite cleanse that prescribed directly to you and delivered to your door to use incase of an emergency. BACK IN STOCK after 3x Sell-Outs! The Gold Standard in quality: the only product of its kind compounded by a 50-state licensed US pharmacy. Use promo code: GRANT to save 10% at: (Click Link Below) https://www.twc.health/products/ivermectin-mebendazole?ref=GRANT Also the prescription medical kits will allow you will have on hand much needed antibiotics See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the 2024 International Hepatitis B virus meeting in Chicago IL, Rich Condit speaks with Thomas Tu about his experiences as a both a HepB scientist and patient. Host: Rich Condit Guest: Thomas Tu Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV Hepatitis B Foundation Tu Laboratory Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

In this episode, we're joined by molecular biologist Dr. Jerneja Tomsic for a thorough, start-to-finish dismantling of PCR, the method that underpins much of modern diagnostic virology.We begin with foundational principles—Koch's postulates, isolation vs. purification, and the philosophical failures of modern science. Dr. Tomsic walks us through the basics of PCR, exposing its misuse in clinical settings and the flawed assumptions baked into its application.From there, we challenge the idea of asymptomatic carriers, the nonsense of virology, and the sleight of hand involved in viral sequencing, primer creation, and metagenomics.This is not just a technical critique—it's a deeper reflection on scientific corruption, narrative manipulation, and the role of fear as the real virus.If you've ever questioned the foundations of modern "infectious disease" science, this episode is essential listening.Keep up with me (socials)https://www.instagram.com/beyond.terrain/https://beyondterrain.com/Our vision at Beyond Terrain is best supported by sharing our work!Joining our private terrain community is also a wonderful way to support what we do here at Beyond Terrain.https://beyondterrain.com/beyond-terrain-community/Learn more from and support our esteemed guest, Dr. Tomsichttps://x.com/zianiniSLO

TWiV reviews universal vaccine initiative at NIAID, shut down of the Integrated Research Facility at Ft. Detrick, modeling the reemergence of infectious diseases as vaccination rates drop, and bacterial outer membrane vesicles bound to bacteriophages modulate neutrophil responses to bacterial infection. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Jolene Ramsey Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV ASV 2025 Paul has Measles (YouTube, virology blog) Universal vaccine project (NIAID, CIDRAP) Measles update (US, Texas) Integrated Research Lab closed (Telegraph) Modeling reemergence of infectious diseases (JAMA) Outer membrane vesicles attached to phage (Front Cell Inf Micro) Pf phage review (Front Immunol) Letters read on TWiV 1215 Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Weekly Picks Alan – A Paradise Built in Hell, by Rebecca Solnit (and here's my review of it) Jolene – Virology course student communication projects, Spring 2025 Vincent – Vaccine Education Center Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

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.

From the 2024 International Hepatitis B virus meeting in Chicago IL, Rich Condit speaks with Chari Cohen about her work as President of the Hepatitis B Foundation. Host: Rich Condit Guest: Chari Cohen Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV Hepatitis B Foundation Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

Prof Angus Dalgleish is a professor emeritus of oncology at the University of London who is recognized worldwide for his contributions in cancer and HIV research. Dr. Dalgleish is the co-discoverer of identifying the CD4 receptor as a major cellular receptor for HIV.  He has published approximately 500 papers in the peer-reviewed literature. He was a member of a selective group led by former MI6 head Richard Dearlove who referred to themselves as the Covid Hunters. As early as March 2020, just a few months after the first announcement of the pandemic coronavirus, this group stated the Covid-19 virus originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.   Prof. Dalgleish has been an outspoken critic of government lockdowns, mask mandates and the Covid vaccines, notably the mRNA vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna.

TWiV reviews new committee of experts to counter vaccine misinformation, resignation of NSF Director, dependence of immune response to rabies virus on the gut microbiome, and a nucleosome switch primes hepatitis B virus infection. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Angela Mingarelli Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV ASV 2025 Committee of experts to counter vaccine misinformation (Science) NSF Director resigns (Science) Dependence of vaccine immune response on gut microbiome (Cell Host Microbe) Nucleosome switch primes HepB replication (Cell) Letters read on TWiV 1212 Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Weekly Picks Angela – Wild chimpanzees filmed by scientists bonding over alcoholic fruit Rich – Malcolm Gladwell Revisionist History “The Joe Rogan Intervention” Vincent – Measles Misinformation Is on the Rise — and Americans Are Hearing It, Survey Finds Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@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.

Last week, the website covid.gov looked very different, containing information on coping with covid and US research. This week it leads you to a White House webpage outlining lab-leak hypothesis – that the pandemic was the result of dodgy lab work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The scientific consensus however continues to suggest a zoonotic crossover event. And a preprint recently published by Zach Hensel of the New University of Lisbon and Florence Débarre of the Sorbonne adds new early sequences to the evidence base. As they suggest, it doesn't seal the debate, but it certainly doesn't surprise the scientists.As the Trump administration continues to rattle swords with US science, we speak with Lisa Fazio of Vanderbuilt University who found out abruptly her funding from the National Science Foundation is ending, and Don Ingber, founding director of Harvard University's Wyss Institute about the impacts they are feeling from the federal belt tightening.Finally we learn this week of an eerie species of Hawai'ian caterpillar moth. Not only is it carnivorous, but it ties small pieces of the indigestible remains of insects and bugs found in spider webs to its case, like a gruesome, camouflaged suit of armour. Why? As Dan Rubinoff of Hawai'i describes, it protects it from the hungry host spider, making it appear as the leftovers of yesterday's dinner, or perhaps the shed exoskeleton of the spider itself.Presenter: Roland Pease Producer: Alex Mansfield Production Coordinator: Josie Hardy(Image: The view of Huanan seafood market on February 9, 2021 in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. Credit: Getty Images)

From the 2024 International Hepatitis B virus meeting in Chicago IL, Rich Condit speaks with Stephan Urban about his career working on HBV and HDV, and his philanthropy. Host: Rich Condit Guest: Stephan Urban Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV ASV 2025 Hepatitis delta: recent advances (Hepatology) Bulevirtide for HBV and HDV (Lancet Inf Dis) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

TWiV discusses the rising autism rate among children, RFK Jr.'s claim that autism ‘destroys lives', receptor binding specificity of a bovine H5N1 influenza virus, and improved dengue subunit vaccine modified to form E protein dimers. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV ASV 2025 Rising autism rate among children (MMWR) RFK Jr. claims autism ‘destroys lives‘ (NY Times) Receptor binding specificity of bovine H5N1 virus (Nature) Bovine H5N1 binds poorly to human receptors (Nature) AJ Eisfeld et al reply (Nature) Mootant influenza H5N1 virus (TWiV 1131) Improved dengue 2 subunit vaccine (J Virol) Letters read on TWiV 1211 Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Weekly Picks Brianne – Scientists detect signature of life on a distant planet, study suggests Rich – Hanlon's Razor Alan – Baby colossal squid filmed in deep ocean Vincent – How the United States became a science superpower — and how quickly it could crumble Listener Pick John – Revisionist History: The RFK Jr. Problem Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

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.

TWiV reviews RFK Jr's odd comments on ‘single antigen' vaccines and his September deadline for understanding why autism has increased, dire wolf does not come back from the dead, oral norovirus vaccine tablet that induces mucosal immunity in older adults, and identification of broadly neutralizing human monoclonal antibodies against norovirus. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV ASV 2025 RFK Jr. and Novavax (MSN) September deadline to understand autism rise (Reuters) Dire wolf not resurrected (Science) Oral norovirus vaccine tablet (Sci Transl Med) Broadly neutralizing norovirus monoclonal antibodies (Sci Transl Med) Letters read on TWiV 1209 Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Weekly Picks Brianne – New experiment updates classic experiment on how life on Earth started Kathy – APOD ISS meets Venus, Sign up for NASA ISS alerts, GoISS Watch Alan – Mason bees could replace honeybees as crop pollinators Vincent – Mystery of medieval manuscripts revealed by ancient DNA Listener Pick Sonrisa – GOT'EM Good! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@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 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.

Cannabis für medizinische Zwecke ist in der Schweiz vor zweieinhalb Jahren legalisiert worden. Trotzdem sind Patientinnen und Patienten unterversorgt. Und: Der Ursprung von Corona und wie der britische Virenforscher Peter Daszak gecancelt wurde. (00:00) Schlagzeilen (00:42 ) Der Untergang eines Forschers Noch immer ist unklar, wo das Corona-Virus herkam. Labor oder Natur? Diese Frage wird derzeit wieder heftig diskutiert. Peter Daszak, ein britischer Virenforschert, wurde im Zusammenhang mit dieser Frage gecancelt. Er hat in der Vergangenheit mit dem Wuhan-Institute of Virology zusammengearbeitet, das von manchen als Quelle des Virus verdächtigt wird. (07:44 ) Wissenschaftsmeldungen: >Meilenstein in der Hirnforschung: Ein Kubikmillimeter Mäusgehirn kartiert. >Spuren von angstlösenden Medikamenten in Gewässern machen Lachse furchtlos. >Der Boden unter dem ausgetrockneten Aralsee hebt sich. (14:12) Teures Gras Seit 2022 dürfen in der Schweiz alle Ärztinnen und Ärzte medizinisches Cannabis verschreiben, es braucht keine behördliche Sonderbewilligung mehr. Vielen Patientinnen und Patienten müssen ihre Cannabistherapie trotzdem selbst finanzieren. Die Kassen zahlen nicht - es fehle an Evidenz zur Wirksamkeit und Wirtschaftlichkeit dieser Arzneimittel. (21:33) Cannabis bei Demenz Der Forschungsstand bei medizinischem Cannabis ist lückenhaft. Bei den allermeisten Erkrankungen fehlen solide Daten, ob diese Arzneimittel helfen oder nicht. Forschende aus Genf wollen nun dazu beitragen, diese Forschungslücke zu schliessen: mit einer Cannabisstudie bei Demenzkranken. Links: Ein Kubikmillimeter Mäusgehirn: nature.com/immersive/d42859-025-00001-w/index.html MICrONS Project: microns-explorer.org/cortical-mm3 Furchtlose Lachse unter Psychopharmaka: science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp7174 Der Boden unter dem Aralsee hebt sich: nature.com/articles/s41561-025-01664-w

TWiV notes the passing of Klaus Conzelmann, then reviews reverse-zoonoses of 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza A viruses and evolution in United States swine, and reduction in dementia incidence in recipients of Zostavax. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV ASV 2025 Reverse zoonoses of 2009 H1N1 in US swine (PLoS Path) Zostavax reduces dementia (Nature) Letters read on TWiV 1207 Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Weekly Picks Rich – Certain Roller Coasters May Help Small Kidney Stones Pass Alan – Analog and Asimov's science fiction magazines Vincent – Science Under Threat in the United States: How scientists and institutions should respond Listener Pick Charles – Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)

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.

Kim Roberts, Assistant Professor of Virology, Trinity College Dublin

Measles and Avian Flu have been in the headlines, and it has been five years since the start of the COVID pandemic. We welcome back Dr. Eric Yager of the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. There should be no shortage of topics! Ray Graf hosts.

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TWiV reviews liver damage caused by over use of vitamin A in Texas, vitamin A does not change clinical course of measles in high income country, NIH cuts COVID-19 research, US ends vaccine funds for poor countries, anti-vaxxer hired to study vaccines and autism, new DURC policy, Jamaican fruit bat competence for filoviruses, and human outbreaks of Oropouche virus reassortant in Brazil. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV ASV 2025 Vitamin A liver disease in Texas (NY Times) Vitamin A doesn't help measles in high-income countries (Pediat Inf Dis) NIH cancels COVID grants (Science) US ends vaccine funds for poor countries (NY Times) Anti-vaxxer to study vaccines and autism (Sci Based Med) DURC rules revised (USG and NIH guidance) Filoviruses and Jamaican fruit bats (Nat Comm) Oropouche outbreaks in Brazil (Nat Med) Woolly mice (NPR) Letters read on TWiV 1205 Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Weekly Picks Brianne – Math of March Madness Brackets Kathy – Wood frogsicles #1 and #2 Alan – Rare glimpse of baby polar bears emerging from dens Vincent – Hikaru Utada Would Rather Play CERN Than Coachella Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

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.

Dan Hendrycks is the Director and co-founder of the Center for AI Safety, and an advisor to Scale AI and xAI. He joins Big Technology Podcast for a discussion of AI's growing risk profile, and what to do about it. Tune in to hear Hendricks explain why virology expertise in AI models is an immediate concern and how these systems might soon enable devastating hacks. We also cover intelligence explosion scenarios, the geopolitical implications of AI development, and why an international AI arms race could lead to faster development than the world can handle. Hit play for an insider's perspective on how governments and AI labs are wrestling with unprecedented technological power that could reshape global security.

TWiV explains why RFK Jr.'s proposal to let H5N1 infections in birds ‘rip' is a bad idea, phase 1/2 trial of combined influenza/COVID mRNA vaccines, and how your first influenza virus exposure shapes the B cell response to influenza vaccination 50 years later. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV ASV 2025 RFK Jr. says let H5N1 rip through flocks (NY Times) Combined flu/COVID mRNA vaccine (Nat Comm) Rare syndrome after COVID vaccination (NY Times, medRxiv) Imprinting lasts 50 years (Immunity) Imprinting protects against H5N1 and H7N9 (Science) Letters read on TWiV 1203 Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Weekly Picks Brianne – Node-Focal Plane Image Competition Rich – Periodic cooking of eggs Vincent – The use of placebo controls in clinical trials Listener Picks Anne – Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@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.

**Discussion begins at 4:50**2020 will be a year that lives in infamy for our generation.  It is the year the workers were asked to stay home and children asked not to go to school.  It is the year that healthcare workers showing up to work in unprecedented times fighting a virus that they didn't know how to fight.  It is the year of "don't wear a mask and don't worry" to "wear a mask, wash your groceries, and oh my gosh - it could spread through your eyeballs".  It was a pivotal election year.  It was a year with protests and riots were rampant.  It is the year of fear, and hysteria, and TikTok popping off.  And all of that leads back to a pesky virus called SARS-COVID-2, or as people know it - COVID-19.  So where did this virus start?  Is there still controversy over the origin story?  What does the trail of money say?  And mostly, was the government just covering up a huge, colossal mistake?  Let's travel back in time to revisit the story of COVID-19.  Don't worry, no mask is required while listening to this podcast.  Send us a textSupport the showTheme song by INDA

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text MessageFive years after a mysterious virus emerged from Wuhan, China, we're still grappling with unanswered questions about COVID-19's origins and accountability. Drawing from Sharri Markson's eye-opening book "What Really Happened in Wuhan," we explore a remarkable January 2020 meeting where Chinese democracy advocate Wei Jingsheng warned Washington insiders about a suspicious virus leak from a laboratory—weeks before the world understood what was coming.This pivotal conversation raises profound questions: Why hasn't there been a comprehensive investigation into COVID-19's origins comparable to the Nuremberg trials after WWII or the tribunals for Rwanda and Yugoslavia? Top intelligence officials from multiple nations now believe a laboratory accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology represents the most probable explanation. Former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove states "the weight of evidence is actually on the escapee side," while former CIA Director Mike Pompeo identifies the Wuhan lab as the likely source. Yet meaningful accountability remains out of reach.We examine the unique geopolitical challenges preventing justice—China's superpower status, the difficulty in establishing clear intent versus negligence, and international reluctance to confront Beijing. The stark reality is that China has been the source of multiple serious disease outbreaks in recent decades, raising urgent questions about global biosafety standards and potential consequences for nations that repeatedly endanger global health. Despite these obstacles, the millions who lost their lives deserve our continued pursuit of truth and accountability. Five years may not be enough time to untangle this complex catastrophe, but history shows that persistence in seeking justice matters, however challenging that path may be.Join us as we reflect on this somber anniversary and consider what meaningful steps toward accountability might still be possible, even as the window for justice narrows with each passing year.Key Points from the Episode:• Exploring Sharri Markson's book "What Really Happened in Wuhan" and key early warning from Chinese democracy advocate Wei Jingsheng• Comparing COVID-19 to historical justice mechanisms like Nuremberg, Rwanda, and Cambodia tribunals• Examining statements from intelligence leaders including former MI6 and CIA heads supporting the lab leak theory• Analyzing the geopolitical obstacles preventing meaningful investigation and accountability• Questioning what justice might look like five years after the pandemic began• Highlighting China's repeated role in pandemic outbreaks over recent decades• Considering whether stronger international biosafety standards and potential UN Security Council consequences should be implementedKeep fighting the good fight and seeking truth about COVID-19's origins despite the challenges.Other resources: Want to leave a review? Click here, and if we earned a five-star review from you **high five and knuckle bumps**, we appreciate it greatly, thank you so much!Because we care what you think about what we think and our website, please email David@teamm

Infectious diseases physician and author of ‘Booster Shots' Adam Ratner joins TWiV to discuss measles, measles vaccination, how to approach anti-vaccine sentiment, and the uncertain future of children's' health. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Brianne Barker, and Jolene Ramsey Guest: Adam Ratner Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV Booster Shots by Adam Ratner The Cutter Incident by Paul Offit Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@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.

TWiV covers a second death over 150 cases of measles in Texas, utter failure of removal of type 2 poliovirus from OPV, more OPV doses administered in Gaza, second Ebola outbreak in Sudan, vaccine being tested, Trump administration cancels $400 million in grants to Columbia University, bat-infecting merbecovirus that binds human ACE2 and infects human cells, and innate immune sensing of rotavirus by intestinal epithelial cells leads to diarrhea. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV ASV 2025 Second child dies of measles (NY Times) Over 150 measles cases in Texas (Texas DSHS) Utter failure of removal of OPV2 from OPV (Science) Over 600,000 doses of OPV administered in Gaza (polioeradication) Second outbreak of Sudan Ebola in Uganda (IAVI) Columbia grants canceled by administration (NBC News) Bat merbecovirus also infects human cells via Ace2 (Cell) Recent virus research, was proper containment used? (NY Times) Innate immune sensing of rotatvirus leads to diarrhea (Cell Host Microbe) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Weekly Picks Kathy – Mice cry out when they urinate, and give mouth to mouth resuscitation Rich – Firefly Aerospace Alan – Strong Museum of Play Vincent – How a PhD student's lab size affects their chance of future academic success Listener Picks Larry – James Harrison's rare blood protected many infants Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

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.

TWiV reviews passing of Ann Palmenberg, deadly illness in western Congo, US disruption of mpox and ebolavirus programs, first measles death in Texas outbreak, flu vaccine selection meeting postponed, US withdraws from polio, malaria, HIV programs and more, clade 2.3.4.4b H5N1 viruses have a long HA stalk, and systems vaccinology to identify predictors of durable antibody response to multiple vaccines in humans. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV ASV 2025 Ann Palmenberg dies (Cress) Ann at Chumakov Symposium (YouTube) Unknown illness in Congo (NY Times) Bad news about mpox outbreak (NPR) US interrupts Ebola prevention program (NPR) First measles death in Texas (Texas Trib) Flu vaccine selection meeting canceled (NY Times) US ends funding for polio, HIV, malaria and more (NY Times) Clade 2.3.4.4b H5N1 neuraminidase has a long stalk (mBio) Predictors of durable antibody responses to vaccines (Nat Immunol) Review of adjuvants (Vaccinol Methods Vacc Res) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Weekly Picks Brianne – Video of the Northern Lights from Space Rich – Vaccination for Sudan Ebola virus disease Alan – Specialized moth wing scales give it 3-D camouflage (news and paper) Vincent – WHO Recommendations for Influenza Vaccine Composition for the 2025-2026 Northern Hemisphere Influenza Season Listener Picks Gerry – Eukaryotic Transcription Anne – The science of the solar system Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

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.

The entire TWiV team comes together to pay tribute to Dickson Despommier, then reviews antibodies to H5N1 virus in veterinarians working with dairy cattle, Elisabeth Bik donates prize money for data integrity analyses, measles outbreak in Texas, and use of an alternative genetic code by human microbiome phages. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, Brianne Barker, Daniel Griffin, Angela Mingarelli, and Jolene Ramsey Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV ASV 2025 Livestream tribute to Dickson (Office Hours) Dickson's Wikipedia page Dickson's obituary (NY Times) Dickson websites: trichinella.org, thelivingriver.org, fordhamopolis.com, despommierphotoart.com Alan's tribute to Dickson (alandove.com) H5N1 seroprevalence (MMWR) Elisabeth Bik donates prize money (Science) Measles outbreak in Texas (Texas DSHS) Human microbiome phages use alternative genetic code (Nat Comm) Letters (mostly not) read on TWiV 1195 – all about Dickson Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Weekly Picks Angela – Rare spotting of humpback anglerfish “diablo negro” (Melanocetus johnsonii) in Tenerife, Canary Islands. First time ever observed alive! Brianne – Moonwalking with Einstein inspired by reading NY Times article about Recent memory champ Kathy – Witness History 9 minute podcasts Rich – APOD: Perijove 11: Passing Jupiter Alan –  Ecological succession on abandoned farmland Jolene –  Parasitic Diseases Lectures and first 27 episodes of This Week in Parasitism Vincent – The New City Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

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.

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Ralph welcomes Deepa Padmanabha, senior legal advisor to Greenpeace USA, to discuss that organization's looming trial against Energy Transfer Partners (builder of the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock) that threatens the constitutionally protected First Amendment right of citizens and citizen groups to protest. Plus, Josh Paul, former State Department employee, who resigned in protest over the Biden Administration's policy of sending weapons to support Israel's genocide in Gaza, returns to tell us about an organization he co-founded called “A New Policy,” which as the name suggests envisions an American policy toward the Middle East more in line with the “foundational principles of liberty, equality, democracy, and human rights; advancing American interests abroad; and protecting American freedoms at home.”Deepa Padmanabha is Senior Legal Advisor at Greenpeace USA, where she works closely with environmental activists seeking to exercise their First Amendment rights to promote systemic change. In September 2022, she testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on Greenpeace USA's experience with legal attacks from extractive industries and the importance of federal anti-SLAPP legislation. And her work has focused on defending Greenpeace entities in the US against two SLAPP lawsuits attempting to silence the organization's advocacy work.This was not a Greenpeace campaign—and that was very intentional. And so our very limited involvement was solidarity with the Indigenous tribes, the Indigenous water protectors that were carrying this fight…Personally, I don't think that Energy Transfer likes the optics of going after Indigenous people. I think that it's much easier to go after the “Big Greens”, the “agitators”, things like that—and they probably would be dealing with a much more difficult PR campaign if they went after members of tribes.Deepa PadmanabhaBack in 2016 and 2017, when the original civil RICO cases were filed against the Greenpeace entities (all of these fights started out as RICO), many groups across issue areas were deeply concerned that this would be the new tactic used to go to attack labor, to attack human rights, to attack every kind of organization imaginable. And so what we did at that time (Greenpeace USA was a part of it as well as other groups) is we've created a coalition called Protect the Protest. Protect the Protest is a coalition of organizations to provide support for individuals who are threatened with SLAPPs, who receive cease-and-desist letters, who might want help either finding a lawyer or communication support. Because we know that the individuals bringing these lawsuits want the fights to happen in silence. So a big part of the work that needs to be done—and that we do—is to bring attention to them.Deepa PadmanabhaPast SLAPP lawsuits by corporations intended to wear down the citizen groups, cost them all kinds of legal fees. There have been SLAPP lawsuits for citizen groups just having a news conference or citizen groups being part of a town meeting. Or in the case of Oprah Winfrey, who was sued by at Texas meat company because she had a critic of the meat industry on her show that reached millions of people. That case was settled. So, this is the furthest extension of suppression of free speech by these artificial entities called corporations.Ralph NaderJosh Paul is co-founder (with Tariq Habash) of A New Policy, which seeks to transform U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. He resigned from the State Department in October 2023 due to his disagreement with the Biden Administration's decision to rush lethal military assistance to Israel in the context of its war on Gaza. He had previously spent over 11 years working as a Director in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, which is responsible for U.S. defense diplomacy, security assistance, and arms transfers. He previously worked on security sector reform in both Iraq and the West Bank, with additional roles in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, U.S. Army Staff, and as a Military Legislative Assistant for a Member of the U.S. House Armed Services Committee.I think that the time for quitting in protest over Gaza, unfortunately, in many ways, is greatly behind us. I think there will be a significant number of State Department officials who will be leaving in the coming days, weeks, and months. And this is a result of a push from the Trump administration to gut America's diplomatic corps, much as they did at the start of the previous Trump administration, but even more so this time around. What I'm hearing from former colleagues in the State Department is a sense of immense despair as they see freezes being placed on U.S. foreign assistance programs—including programs that do an immense amount of good around the world—and just a concern about the overall and impending collapse of American diplomacy.Josh PaulWe have to acknowledge the precedent set by President Biden. Not only in his unconditional support for Israel and its attacks on Gaza, its violations of international humanitarian law, but also in President Biden and Secretary Blinken's willingness to set aside U.S. laws when it came to, in particular, security assistance and arms transfers in order to continue that support. That is a precedent that I think all Americans should be concerned about regardless of their thoughts on the conflict itself.Josh PaulI would say that what we face in America is a problem set that runs much deeper than any change in administration, than any political party. There is an entrenched dynamic within American politics—an entrenched set of both political and economic incentives across our electoral system—that are maintaining U.S. unconditional support for Israel, regardless of what the American people might want.Josh PaulNews 1/31/251. Our top stories this week have to do with the betrayal of the so-called “Make America Healthy Again” or “MAHA” movement. First up, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – President Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Health of Human Services – found himself in the hot seat Wednesday as his confirmation hearings began. Kennedy, who is facing opposition both from Democrats who regard his anti-vaccine rhetoric as dangerous and Republicans who view him as too liberal, struggled to answer basic questions during these hearings. Perhaps most distressingly, he shilled for the disastrous Medicare privatization scheme known as “Medicare Advantage,” at one point saying that he himself is on a Medicare Advantage plan and that “more people would rather be on Medicare Advantage.” Kennedy went on to say most Americans would prefer to be on private insurance. As Matt Stoller of the American Economic Liberties Project writes, this is “basically Cato [Institute] style libertarianism.”2. Meanwhile, the Trump Administration is signaling they intend to scrap a proposed EPA rule to ban “forever chemicals” from Americans' drinking water, per the Spokesman-Review out of Spokane, Washington. Per this piece, “perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, abbreviated PFAS, are a set of man-made chemicals used in thousands of products over the decades. High levels of them have…been linked to cancers, heart disease, high cholesterol, thyroid disease, low birth weight and other diseases.” Shelving PFAS regulation was high on the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 wish list, though the Trump team had previously sent mixed messages on the topic. Trump's pick to oversee regulation of dangerous chemicals is Nancy Beck, a longtime executive at the American Chemistry Council.3. As if those betrayals weren't enough, Trump has also selected Ms. Kailee Buller as the Chief of Staff for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. For the past year, Buller has served as president & CEO of the National Oilseed Processors Association. More simply put, she is the top seed oil lobbyist in the nation. This is perhaps the most illustrative example of the MAHA bait and switch. Not only is the Trump administration spitting in the face of their own supporters and doing the opposite of what they promised in terms of cracking down on ultra-processed, unhealthy food – they are doing so in an openly and brazenly corrupt manner. Under Trump, regulatory agencies are on the auction block and will be sold to the highest bidder.4. In more health news, legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has come out with a new story – and it's a doozy. According to Hersh's sources, the Trump administration mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic long before the public knew anything about the virus. He writes “I learned this week that a US intelligence asset at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, where the Covid virus was first observed…provided early warning of a laboratory accident at Wuhan that led to a series of infections that was quickly spreading and initially seemed immune to treatment.” Hersh continues “early studies dealing with how to mitigate the oncoming plague, based on information from the Chinese health ministry about the lethal new virus, were completed late in 2019 by experts from America's National Institutes of Health and other research agencies.” Yet, “Despite their warnings, a series of preventative actions were not taken until the United States was flooded with cases of the virus.” Most damningly, Hersh's sources claim that “All of these studies…have been expunged from the official internal records in Washington, including any mention of the CIA's source inside the Chinese laboratory.” If true, this would be among the most catastrophic cases of indecision – and most sweeping coverup – in modern American history. Watch this space.5. Meanwhile, in more foreign affairs news, Progressive International reports that “For the first time in history,” Members of the United States Congress have joined with Members of Mexico's Cámara de Diputados to “oppose the escalating threats of U.S. military action against Mexico” and call to “strengthen the bonds of solidarity between our peoples.” This move of course comes amid ever-rising tensions between the United States and our southern neighbor, particularly as the GOP has in recent years taken up the idea of a full-blown invasion of Mexico. This letter was signed by many prominent U.S. progressives, including Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Summer Lee, AOC, Greg Casar and Raul Grijalva, as well as 23 Mexican deputies. One can only hope that this show of internationalism helps forestall further escalation with Mexico.6. Turning to the issue of corruption, former New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez was sentenced to 11 years in prison for his role in a bribery scheme that included him acting as an unregistered agent of the Egyptian government, per the DOJ. Until 2024, Menendez had served as the Chairman or Ranking Member of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee – an ideal perch for a crooked politician. During sentencing, Menendez broke down and weepily begged the judge for leniency. Yet, almost immediately after the sentence was handed down, Menendez changed his tune and started sucking up to Trump in a transparent attempt to secure a pardon. Axios reports Menendez said “President Trump was right…This process is political, and it's corrupted to the core. I hope President Trump cleans up the cesspool and restores the integrity to the system.” Unfortunately, Trump's fragile ego makes him particularly susceptible to just this sort of appeal, so it would be no surprise if he does grant some form of clemency to the disgraced Senator.7. Likewise, New York City Mayor Eric Adams appears to feel the walls closing in with regard to his corrupt dealings with his Turkish benefactors. And just like Menendez, Adams' strategy appears to be to ingratiate himself with Trump world. On January 23rd, the New York Daily News reported that Adams had pledged to avoid publicly criticizing Trump. Adams has previously called Trump a “white supremacist.” Adams' simpering seems to having the intended effect. On January 29th, the New York Times reported “Senior Justice Department officials under President Trump have held discussions with federal prosecutors in Manhattan about the possibility of dropping their corruption case,” against Adams. This story notes that “The defense team is led by Alex Spiro, who is also the personal lawyer for Elon Musk.”8. Our final three stories this week have to do with organized labor. First, Bloomberg labor reporter Josh Eidelson reports Trump has ousted National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo. This alone is a tragedy; Abruzzo has been nothing short of a crusader on behalf of organized labor during her tenure. Yet, more troubling news quickly followed: Trump has unlawfully sacked Gwynne Wilcox a Democratic member of the labor board with no just cause. As Eidelson notes, the law forbids “firing board members absent neglect or malfeasance.” Wilcox was the first ever Black member of the NLRB and her unlawful removal gives Trump a working majority at the board. Expect to see a rapid slew of anti-worker decisions in the coming days.9. In some good news, independent journalist Ken Klippenstein reports that union collective bargaining agreements have successfully “thwart[ed]…Trump's return to work order.” Instead, the administration has been forced to issue a new order, stating “Supervisors should not begin discussions around the return to in-person work with bargaining unit employees until HHS fulfills its collective bargaining obligations.” In other words, even while every supposed legal guardrail, institutional norm, and political force of gravity wilts before Trump's onslaught, what is the one bulwark that still stands strong, protecting everyday working people? Their union.10. Our final story is a simple one. Jacobin labor journalist Alex Press reports that in Philadelphia, the first Whole Foods grocery store has voted to unionize. The nearly-300 workers at the store voted to affiliate with United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1176. Whole Foods was sold to Amazon in 2017 and since then the e-tail giant has vigorously staved off unionization. Could this be the first crack in the dam? Only time will tell.This has been Francesco DeSantis, with In Case You Haven't Heard. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe