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TWiV 1300: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

28 Feb 2026 · 41 min · Episode 1300

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello discuss several states and the governor of Pennsylvania suing HHS over changes in the childhood vaccination schedule, the vaccine derived type 2 poliovirus outbreak in Pakistan and implications for the global withdrawal of the oral poliovirus vaccine, and the outbreak of Candida, then Dr. Griffin deep dives into recent statistics RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the Wasterwater Scan dashboard, Johns Hopkins measles tracker, where to find PEMGARDA, how to access and pay for Paxlovid, when to use steroids for treating influenza, 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.

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• States vs RFK Jr and Bhattacharya: changes to the childhood vaccine schedule (Office of the Attorney General, California) • Surgeon General Nominee Sidesteps Questions on Vaccines at Senate Hearing (NY Times) • Unqualified failure in polio vaccine policy left thousands of kids paralyzed (Science) • Clinical and Epidemiological Investigation of Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus Type 2 Outbreak in Pakistan During 2019–2021 (CID) • Inactivated Polio Vaccine Must Be an Essential Part of Polio Eradication (CID) • Wastewater for Candida auris: Wastewater (WasterWater Scan) • Wastewater for measles (WasterWater Scan) • Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Rubeola) • Big outbreak, bright lights…Measles Dashboard (South Carolina Department of Public Health) • Utah Measles Dashboard (Utah Department of Health and Human Services) • Tracking Measles Cases in the U.S. (Johns Hopkins) • Measles vaccine recommendations from NYP (jpg) • Weekly measles and rubella monitoring (Government of Canada) • Measles (WHO) • 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) • Respiratory virus activity levels (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) • Weekly surveillance report: cliff notes (CDC FluView) • OPTION 2: XOFLUZA $50 Cash Pay Option (xofluza) • RSV: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) • Respiratory Diseases (Yale School of Public Health) • US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) • RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection) • Vaccines for Adults (CDC: Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection (RSV)) • Economic Analysis of Protein Subunit and mRNA RSV Vaccination in Adults aged 50-59 Years (CDC: ACIP) • Respiratory Diseases (Yale School of Public Health) • Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) • COVID-19 deaths (CDC) • Respiratory Illnesses Data Channel (CDC: Respiratory Illnesses) • COVID-19 national and regional trends (CDC) • COVID-19 variant tracker (CDC) • SARS-CoV-2 genomes galore (Nextstrain) • COVID-19 vaccination status during pregnancy and preeclampsia risk: the pandemic-era cohort of the INTERCOVID consortium (eClinical Medicine) • Where to get pemgarda (Pemgarda) • EUAfor 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) • Help your eligible patients access PAXLOVID with the PAXCESS Patient Support Program (Pfizer Pro) • Understanding Coverage Options (PAXCESS) • Infectious Disease Society guidelines…

Links in the notes 20

• https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-virology/id1176779065
• https://www.microbe.tv/contribute
• https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/Filed%20Complaint_0.pdf
• https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/us/politics/surgeon-general-casey-means-senate-hearing.html?searchResultPosition=1
• https://www.science.org/content/article/unqualified-failure-polio-vaccine-policy-left-thousands-kids-paralyzed
• https://academic.oup.com/cid/article-abstract/82/2/341/8137742?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false
• https://academic.oup.com/cid/article-abstract/82/2/352/8138327?redirectedFrom=fulltext&utm_source=etoc&utm_campaign=cid&utm_medium=email&nbd_source=campaigner&nbd=40427954633
• https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html
• https://dph.sc.gov/diseases-conditions/infectious-diseases/measles-rubeola/measles-dashboard
• https://files.epi.utah.gov/Utah%20measles%20dashboard.html
• https://publichealth.jhu.edu/ivac/resources/us-measles-tracker
• https://b2927012.smushcdn.com/2927012/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/measles_vax_rec_2.png?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1
• https://health-infobase.canada.ca/measles-rubella/
• https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/measles
• https://www.health.ny.gov/diseases/communicable/measles/
• https://www.cdc.gov/measles/hcp/vaccine-considerations/index.html
• https://www.cdc.gov/measles/index.html
• https://fda-my.sharepoint.com/Users/Amy/Desktop/Measles%20(CDC%20Measles%20(Rubeola))
• https://www.cdc.gov/pinkbook/hcp/table-of-contents/chapter-13-measles.html#cdc_report_pub_study_section_9-contraindications-and-precautions-to-vaccination
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK236284/#:~:text=The%20evidence%20favors%20acceptance%20of,in%20temporal%20relation%20to%20vaccination

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