This Week in Virology

TWiV reviews the administrations dismantling of the committee that studies pandemic potential, firing of CDC vaccine advisory committee and replacing them with unqualified anti-vaxxers, zoonotic and sustained Mpox spread in Nigeria and Cameroon, and breadth of influenza A antibody cross-reactivity.

Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email

Become a patron of TWiV!

• Support science education at MicrobeTV 2:39
• NIH terminates pandemic preparedness committee (Science)
• RFK Jr. fires all ACIP members (CNN)
• RFK Jr. names dubious members of new ACIP (NPR)
• Zoonotic and sustained Mpox spread in West Africa (Nature)
• Breadth of influenza A antibody cross-reactivity (Nat Micro)
• Letters read on TWiV 1227
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

Brianne – Accidental discovery in planetarium show Alan – Project Hail Mary Vincent – How to speak to a vaccine sceptic: research reveals what works

James – Looking at the world through a microscope

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 in horror examine dismantling of public infrastructure for establishing vaccine guidelines, the creation of a autism taskforce by someone disciplined for practicing medicine without a license, the ongoing pertussis, bird flu and measles outbreaks, before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections the Wasterwater Scan dashboard, the effective of oseltamivir vs supportive care when one is hospitalized with influenza infection, whether or not the NB.1.8.1 should be included in the fall 2025 vaccines, approval of another anti-RSV monoclonal antibody for treatment in infants, immunization recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines, where to find PEMGARDA, results from the phase 3 randomized clinical trial of pemivibart, provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center's long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, how artery disease impacts SARS-CoV-2 infection outcomes, contacting your federal government representative to stop the assault on science and biomedical research and the recent public health programs that have been unfunded.

Become a patron of TWiV!

• Vaccine Opponent Hired by RFK Jr. Scours Official Records for Link to Autism (Wall Street Journal)
• Correcting our record (Salon)
• You are FIRED! Kennedy removes all ACIP members, eyes replacement (CIDRAP)
• UPI Investigates: The vaccine conflict…..investigative reporting? (UPI)
• RFK Jr.: HHS Moves to Restore Public Trust in Vaccines…to avoid conflicts UGHHHH! (Wall Street Journal)
• GREAT Vaccine advisory panel (Great Barrington Declaration)
• National Vaccine Information Center (Wikipedia: National Vaccine Information Center)
• Nonprofit organization 501(c) (Wikipedia)
• Kennedy Announces Eight New Members of C.D.C. Vaccine Advisory Panel (NY Times)
• Whooping cough deaths! (Kentucky. Gov)
• Kentucky announces two pertussis deaths in infants this year (CIDRAP)
• H5 bird flu: current situation (CDC: Avian Influenza)
• Stability of influenza viruses in the milk of cows and sheep (medRxiv)
• Wastewater for measles (WasterWater Scan)
• Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Rubeola)
• Weekly measles and rubella monitoring (Government of Canada)
• Canada's Ontario province reports death of child from measles (Reuters)
• Measles outbreaks continue with risk of holidays causing surge (gov.UK)
• Measles (WHO)
• 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)
• 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)
• Oseltamivir Treatment vs Supportive Care for Seasonal Influenza Requiring Hospitalization (JAMA)
• 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)
• Approval for Merck's ENFLONSIA™ (clesrovimab-cfor) for Prevention of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Lower Respiratory Tract Disease in Infants Born During or Entering Their First RSV Season (Merck)
• 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)
• Antigenic and Virological Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 Variant BA.3.2, XFG, and NB.1.8.1 (biRxiV)
• COVID-19 vaccine for 6 months, 12 years (CDC: childhood vaccination)
• COVID-19 vaccine for65 years and older (CDC: Adult vaccination)
• 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)
• 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
• Long-term outcomes of patients with pre-existing coronary artery disease after SARS-CoV-2 infection (eBioMedicine)
• Reaching out to US house representative
• Trump Budget Eliminates Funding for Crucial Global Vaccination Programs(NY Times)
• Letters read on TWiV 1226
• 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 the administration's call for fools gold-standard science, NIH may publish in-house, avian influenza viruses in birds in China, and Omicron pathogenicity and immune responses.

Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email

Become a patron of TWiV!

• Support science education at MicrobeTV
• Fool's Gold Standard Science (Nature)
• NIH may publish in-house (Stat News)
• Diversity of H9N2 in China (Nat Micro)
• Omicron and immunity (Cell Rep)
• Letters read on TWiV 1225
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

Kathy – mSphere virus species names standardization Rich – Real Tides & Currents Graph HD Alan – Invasive termites spreading from privately owned boats Vincent – Entomologist Answers Insect Questions

Gerry – Citations Needed podcast 221: Anti-science mugging Joyrell – Mayday: Air Disaster Favorite one, two, three, for Vincent

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 in dismay examine the MAHA-Make America Health Again-report and its inclusion of fictious studies or "Creative literature degree Medical Science writing", RFK Jr contradicted by the CDC for COVID-19 vaccine recommendations for children, reduction in MMR vaccine coverage, the ongoing bird flu and measles outbreaks, how the General Accounting Office instructed HHS to fix deficiencies in infectious disease testing before the next pandemic, before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections the Wasterwater Scan dashboard, whether or not the NB.1.8.1 should be included in the fall 2025 vaccines approval of Moderna's mNEXSPIKE vaccine for fall 2025, childhood immunization recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines, where to find PEMGARDA, results from the phase 3 randomized clinical trial of pemivibart, provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center's long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, the identification of an association between FOXP4 and long COVID and contacting your federal government representative to stop the assault on science and biomedical research.

Become a patron of TWiV!

• The MAHA report (The White House)
• White House Health Report Included Fake Citations (NY Times)
• C.D.C. Contradicts Kennedy and Keeps Advice That Children May Get Covid Shots (NY TImes)
• CDC revises recommendation for COVID vaccines in kids (CIDRAP)
• Exclusive: CDC Expert resigns from COVID vaccines advisory role (Reuters)
• Trends in County-Level MMR Vaccination Coverage in Children in the United States (JAMA Network)
• U.S. Cancels Contract With Moderna to Develop Bird Flu Vaccine (NY Times)
• Canada Wants to Kill 400 Ostriches. Kennedy and Dr. Oz Want to Save Them. (NY Times)
• Confirmations of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Commercial and Backyard Flocks (USDA: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service)
• H5 bird flu: current situation (CDC: Avian Influenza)
• Bird flu (CDC: Avian Influenza)
• H5N1 avian flu strikes another Arizona layer farm (CIDRAP)
• Bird flu outbreak kills 95% of Hickman's Arizona chickens, closes West Valley farms (AZCentral)
• Wastewater for measles (WasterWater Scan)
• Additional Denver Resident Tests Positive forMeasles (Denver: The Mile High City)
• Health officials alert public of potential measles exposure at Denver International Airport and nearby hotel (Colorado: Department of public health and environment)
• Colorado announces another measles case linked to Turkish Airlines flight (CIDRAP)
• Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Rubeola)
• Weekly measles and rubella monitoring (Government of Canada)
• Measles (WHO)
• 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))
• 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)
• Public Health Preparedness: HHS Needs a Coordinated National Approach for Diagnostic Testing for Pandemic Threats (GAO: US Government Accountability Office)
• GAO to HHS: Fix 'persistent deficiencies' in infectious-disease testing before next pandemic (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)
• 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)
• Antigenic and Virological Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 Variant BA.3.2, XFG, and NB.1.8.1 (biRxiV)
• mNEXSPIKE is now approved and coming this fall (mNEXSPIKE)
• FDA approval for mNEXSPIKE (moderna)
• COVID-19 vaccine for 6 months, 12 years (CDC: childhood vaccination)
• COVID-19 vaccine for65 years and older (CDC: Adult vaccination)
• ACIP Shared Clinical Decision-Making Recommendations (CDC: Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices(ACIP))
• Safety and Efficacy of Pemivibart, a Long-Acting Monoclonal Antibody, for Prevention of Symptomatic COVID-19 (CID)
• 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)
• 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
• Genome-wide association study of long COVID (Nature Genetics)
• Reaching out to US house representative
• Letters read on TWiV 1224
• 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 MAGA report with non-existent literature citations, a new fungus that could further devastate North American bats, surveillance of avian influenza viruses through bird guano in remote regions, and the receptor for HKU5 coronaviruses is ACE2 from Pipistrellus abramus bats.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker

Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email

Become a patron of TWiV!

• Support science education at MicrobeTV
• Bad citations in MAGA report (Med Exp)
• Another fungus for North American bats (NY Times)
• Surveillance of avian influenza through bird guano (Nat Commun)
• ACE2 from Pipistrellus bats is receptor for HKU5 coronaviruses (Nat Commun)
• Letters read on TWiV 1223
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

Brianne – New mutation found in orange cats Kathy – Middle schooler's STEM project leads to a bacterium with antibiotic activity and to an anti-cancer compound Vincent – Elon Musk's Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death

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 discusses vaccination trends, the changes COVID-19 vaccine recommendations for children and pregnant women, easing of vaccination exemptions in Texas, the ongoing measles outbreak globally before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections the Wasterwater Scan dashboard, whether or not the NB.1.8.1 should be included in the fall 2025 vaccines and concern as confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 rise here and in China, different mechanisms by which to reduce transmission of respiratory pathogens, 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, how spike protein may alter mast cells and the immune response and contacting your federal government representative to stop the assault on science and biomedical research.

Become a patron of TWiV!

• Vaccination trends (CDC: Respiratory Illnesses)
• Weekly COVID-19 Vaccination Dashboard (CDC: COVIDVaxView)
• RFK Jr ends coronavirus shot recommendation for healthy children and pregnant women (Washington Post)
• Characteristics of Children Ages 1–17 Who Died of COVID-19 in 2020–2022 in the United States (American Academy of Pediatrics)
• RFK Jr.'s War on Children (Paul Offit: Beyond the Noise)
• AAP analyzes pediatric COVID-19 hospitalizations from 2020-'24 (American Academy of Pediatrics)
• COVID-19–Associated Hospitalizations among Children and Adults — COVID-NET (CDC: National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases)
• COVID-19–Associated Hospitalizations among Children and Adults — COVID-NET (CDC: National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases)
• Long COVID in Children (CDC: NCHS)
• Long COVID Prevalence and Associated Activity Limitation in US Children (JAMA Pediatrics)
• The C.D.C. Now Says Healthy Kids Don't Need Covid Shots. Is That True? (NY Times)
• U.S. Will No Longer Recommend Covid Shots for Children and Pregnant Women (NY TImes)
• Gregg Abbott (AP News)
• US school-entry vaccination rates fall as exemptions keep rising (AP News)
• Whooping cough cases are rising again in the US (AP News)
• Amid measles outbreak, Texas is poised to make vaccine exemptions for kids easier (AP News)
• Cardiac Events in Adults Hospitalized for Respiratory Syncytial Virus vs COVID-19 or Influenza (JAMA Network Open)
• 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)
• Weekly measles and rubella monitoring (Government of Canada)
• Measles (WHO)
• 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)
• 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)
• Respiratory syncytial virus: an under-recognized healthcare-associated infection (Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology)
• 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)
• Antigenic and Virological Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 Variant BA.3.2, XFG, and NB.1.8.1 (biRxiV)
• New Covid variant NB.1.8.1 detected at US airports amid rise in cases
• U.S. reports cases of new COVID variant NB.1.8.1 behind surge in China (CBS News)
• WHO TAG-VE Risk Evaluation for SARS-CoV-2 Variant Under Monitoring: NB.1.8.1 (WHO)
• New COVID variant NB.1.8.1 detected at US airports amid rise in cases (The Economic Times: News)
• Infection Control Guidance: SARS-CoV-2 (CDC: COVID-19)
• Isolating the burden of transmission-based precautions for COVID-19 (Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology)
• A pilot study of coughing into the shirt to disrupt respiratory pathogen transmission (International Journal of Emergency Medicine)
• Hybrid B- and T-Cell Immunity Associates With Protection Against Breakthrough Infection After Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Vaccination in Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) Participants (JID)
• FDA panel is split on updates to COVID shots as questions loom for fall vaccinations(AP News)
• COVID-19 Vaccines (2025-2026 Formula) for Use in the United States Beginning in Fall 2025(FDA)
• 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)
• Clinical effectiveness of oral antiviral treatment for non-hospitalized high-risk patients with COVID-19 during Omicron JN.1 subvariant wave(Pneumonia)
• Drug interaction checker (University of Liverpool)
• Infectious Disease Society guidelines for treatment and management (ID Society)
• A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of the Effectiveness of Remdesivir to Treat Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 in Hospitalized Patients (CID)
• Molnupiravir safety and efficacy (JMV)
• Convalescent plasma recommendation for immunocompromised (ID Society)
• What to do when sick with a respiratory virus (CDC)
• Managing healthcare staffing shortages (CDC)
• Steroids,dexamethasone at the right time (OFID)
• Anticoagulation guidelines (hematology.org)
• Tocilizumab, sarilumab and anakinra in critically ill patients with COVID-19 (Thorax)
• Daniel Griffin's evidence based medical practices for long COVID (OFID)
• Long COVID hotline (Columbia : Columbia University Irving Medical Center)
• The answers: Long COVID
• Spike proteins of coronaviruses activate mast cells for degranulation via stimulating Src/PI3K/AKT/Ca2+ intracellular signaling cascade (Journal of Virology)
• Reaching out to US house representative
• Letters read on TWiV 1222
• 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 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.

Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email

Become a patron of TWiV!

• 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!

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.

Become a patron of TWiV!

• 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.

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.

Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email

Become a patron of TWiV!

• 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!

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

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.

Become a patron of TWiV!

• 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.

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.

Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email

Become a patron of TWiV!

• 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!

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

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.

Become a patron of TWiV!

• 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.

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.

Guest: Thomas Tu

Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email

Become a patron of TWiV!

• 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.

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.

Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email

Become a patron of TWiV!

• 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!

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.

Become a patron of TWiV!

• 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.

Guest: Chari Cohen

Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email

Become a patron of TWiV!

• 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.

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.

Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email

Become a patron of TWiV!

• 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!

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.

Become a patron of TWiV!

• 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.

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.

Guest: Stephan Urban

Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email

Become a patron of TWiV!

• 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.

Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email

Become a patron of TWiV!

• 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!

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

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.

Become a patron of TWiV!

• 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)
• Infusions 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!

• 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!

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

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.

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.

Become a patron of TWiV!

• 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.

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.

Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email

Become a patron of TWiV!

• 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!

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

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.

Become a patron of TWiV!

• 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.

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!

• 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!

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.

Become a patron of TWiV!

• 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.

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!

• 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!

Brianne – Node-Focal Plane Image Competition Rich – Periodic cooking of eggs Vincent – The use of placebo controls in clinical trials

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.

Become a patron of TWiV!

• 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.

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.

Guest: Adam Ratner

Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email

Become a patron of TWiV!

• 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!

• 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!

• 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!

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

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.

Become a patron of TWiV!

• 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!

• 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!

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

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.

Become a patron of TWiV!

• 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!

• 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!

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.

Become a patron of TWiV!

• 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.

TWiV reviews a facility accident that killed monkeys, new bird blu genotype found in Nevada dairy cattle, Argentina plans to leave WHO, yellow fever on the rise, dynamics of HPV infections in women, and Epstein-Barr virus protein targets B cell receptor for degradation.

Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email

Become a patron of TWiV!

• Support science education at MicrobeTV
• ASV 2025
• Accident kills monkeys at SC research supply facility (Science)
• D1.1 Genotype in Dairy Cattle in Nevada (APHIS)
• Argentina to leave WHO (CIDRAP)
• Yellow fever on the rise (CIDRAP)
• HPV dynamics in women (PLoS Biol)
• EBV protein degrades B cell receptor (PNAS)
• Letters read on TWiV 1193
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

Angela – Mitochondrial swap from cancer to immune cells thwarts anti-tumour defences (one, two) Alan – A little adventure game Vincent – The Staggering Success of Vaccines

John – Percy Lavon Julian Debi – Don't Look Up

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 discuss confirmation of Robert F Kennedy as HHS sectary, mpox, Ebola, how the American people support vaccine development and administration, the measles outbreak in the US-Texas, Georgia and influenza: the number of human infections, high avian flu in mammals, house cats and dairy cows before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the WasterwaterScan dashboard, where to find PEMGARDA, an update of Paxlovid administration provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center's long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, how long COVID varies between children and adults and if viral infection reduces telomere length in sperm.

Become a patron of TWiV!

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

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

Send your questions for Dr. Griffin to daniel@microbe.tv

TWiV reviews freezes and unfreezes of US government grants, how prior COVID-19 vaccination prevents over-reaction of the innate immune response during infections, and how bat genomes illuminate adaptations to viral tolerance and disease resistance.

Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email

Become a patron of TWiV!

• Support science education at MicrobeTV
• ASV 2025
• NIH freezes (ScienceAdviser)
• Is your research on Trump's hit list? (ScienceInsider)
• Prior COVID-19 vaccination tames innate responses (Sci Transl Med)
• Bat genomes illuminate viral tolerance and disease resistance (Nature)
• Letters read on TWiV 1191
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

Alan – NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center dashboards Vincent – He created a hummingbird paradise in his backyard

Christiane – Contact your members of Congress about the Pause in Federal Grant Funding Charles – What's trending in the world of pseudoscience

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 discuss changes in access to public health information and aid mechanisms such as the return of MMWR, the largest tuberculosis outbreak in the US ever, lack of USAID in fighting Marburg and Ebola outbreaks in Africa, discussing if avian influenza virus is airborne, how eggs are effected and the emergence of second spillover into dairy cattle, how the difference between nOPV2 and Sabin OPV2 is a minor reduction in the association of vaccine associated paralytic poliomyelitis before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the WasterwaterScan dashboard, where to find PEMGARDA, an update of Paxlovid administration provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center's long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, how children may be affected by long COVID and if SARS-CoV-2 and other inflammatory syndromes increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease.

Become a patron of TWiV!

• The return of MMWR (CDC)
• Largest tuberculosis outbreak ever in the US (Kansas Department of Health and Environment)
• Marburg virus outbreak in Tanzania (Doctors without borders)
• No USAID, Ebola outbreak in Uganda spreads (CBS News)
• WHO accelerates efforts to Ebola response in Uganda (WHO: Uganda)
• Global partners enable access to vaccine and treatment for Ebola outbreak in Uganda (WHO)
• Ventilation and respiratory viruses (CDC National Institute for Occupational safety and health)
• Is bird flu flying through the air…..is the virus literally airborne? (NY Times)
• Is bird flu like measles (American Journal of Epidemiology)
• Indoor safety guideline (Herokuapp)
• Dairy herds in Nevada have influenza! (CIDRAP)
• Do your eggs have H5N1? (NY Times)
• New genotye D1.1 of avian flu in dairy cattle(USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service)
• Second spillover of avian flu into dairy cattle….does this story sound familiar? (CIDRAP)
• Impact of using nOPV2 in mass vaccination campaigns? (JID)
• Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView)
• As flu increases so do deaths in kids (CIDRAP)
• People most impacted by respiratory viruses (CDC)
• Co-infection with SARS-CoV-2 and influenza A/B (BMC Infectious Diseases)
• Oseltamivir reduces 30-Day mortality in older adults with Influenza (OFID)
• RSV: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection)
• US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• COVID-19 deaths (CDC)
• COVID-19 national and regional trends (CDC)
• COVID-19 variant tracker (CDC)
• SARS-CoV-2 genomes galore (Nextstrain)
• Where to get pemgarda (Pemgarda)
• EUA for the pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 (INVIYD)
• Fusion center near you….if in NY (Prime Fusions)
• CDC Quarantine guidelines (CDC)
• NIH COVID-19 treatment guidelines (NIH)
• Drug interaction checker (University of Liverpool)
• Paxlovid update (Pfizer)
• Infectious Disease Society guidelines for treatment and management (ID Society)
• Molnupiravir safety and efficacy (JMV)
• Convalescent plasma recommendation for immunocompromised (ID Society)
• What to do when sick with a respiratory virus (CDC)
• When your healthcare provider is infected/exposed with SARS-CoV-2 (CDC)
• Managing healthcare staffing shortages (CDC)
• Steroids, dexamethasone at the right time (OFID)
• Anticoagulation guidelines (hematology.org)
• Daniel Griffin's evidence based medical practices for long COVID (OFID)
• Long COVID hotline (Columbia : Columbia University Irving Medical Center)
• The answers: Long COVID
• Long COVID Recovery Program with Zara Dureno, BA, MOT
• Long COVID pevalence and associated activity limitation in US children
• (JAMA Pediatrics)
• Plasma proteomic evidence for increased β-amyloid pathology after SARS-CoV-2 infection (Nature Medicine)
• Letters read on TWiV 1190
• Dr. Griffin's COVID treatment summary (pdf)
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!