This Week in Virology

Guest: Jake Scott

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• Vaccine RCT spreadsheet (CIDRAP)
• What RFK Jr gets wrong about vaccines (Conversation)
• RFK Jr's case against mRNA vaccines collapses (STAT)
• Too many kids' vaccines? Think again (STAT)
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

Angela – Angela Palmer, science meets art (one, two) Rich – TWiV Special: A Shot of Hep B with Thomas Tu; TWiV Special: A shot of HepB with Chari Cohen Vincent – TSA is checking senior's phones for these 5 apps

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• The effect of shingles vaccination at different stages of the dementia disease course
• (Cell)
• FDA links 10 children's deaths to COVID-19 vaccines. Doctors want proof (ABC News)
• Subject: Deaths in children due to COVID-19 vaccines and CBER's path forward Dear Team CBER,(Washington Post)
• Noninferiority of One HPV Vaccine Dose to Two Doses(NEJM)
• Marburg Outbreak in Ethiopia: Current Situation (CDC: Marburg Virus Disease)
• Washington state resident believed to be the first to die from a rare strain of bird flu (AP News)
• Wastewater for measles (WasterWater Scan)
• Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Rubeola)
• Tracking Measles Cases in the U.S. (Johns Hopkins)
• Measles vaccine recommendations from NYP (jpg)
• Weekly measles and rubella monitoring (Government of Canada)
• Measles (WHO)
• Get the FACTS about measles (NY State Department of Health)
• Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola))
• Measles vaccine (CDC Measles (Rubeola))
• Presumptive evidence of measles immunity (CDC)
• Contraindications and precautions to measles vaccination (CDC)
• 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)
• Respiratory virus activity levels (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• Weekly surveillance report: cliff notes (CDC FluView)
• ACIP Recommendations Summary (CDC: Influenza)
• Types of Influenza Viruses (CDC: Influenza (flu))
• Influenza Vaccine Composition for the 2025-2026 U.S. Influenza Season(FDA)
• RSV: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• Respiratory Diseases (Yale School of Public Health)
• US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection)
• Vaccines for Adults (CDC: Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection (RSV))
• Economic Analysis of Protein Subunit and mRNA RSV Vaccination in Adults aged 50-59 Years (CDC: ACIP)
• Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes After Respiratory Syncytial Virus Prefusion F Protein Vaccination During Pregnancy (Obstetrics & Gynecology)
• Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• COVID-19 deaths (CDC)
• Respiratory Illnesses Data Channel (CDC: Respiratory Illnesses)
• COVID-19 national and regional trends (CDC)
• COVID-19 variant tracker (CDC)
• SARS-CoV-2 genomes galore (Nextstrain)
• Antigenic and Virological Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 Variant BA.3.2, XFG, and NB.1.8.1 (bioRxiV)
• Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against post-COVID-19 condition/long COVID: systematic review and meta-analysis (CMI: Clinical Microbiology and Infection)
• SARS-CoV-2Infection Versus Vaccination During Pregnancy: Implications for Placental Antibody Transfer (The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)
• 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)
• Help your eligible patients access PAXLOVID with the PAXCESS Patient Support Program (Pfizer Pro)
• Understanding Coverage Options (PAXCESS)
• 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)
• 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
• Case Report: Celiac plexus block improves gastrointestinal Long COVID symptoms (Frontiers Neuroscience)
• Distinct brain alterations and neurodegenerative processes in cognitive impairment associated with post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (Nature Communications)
• Reaching out to US house representative
• Letters read on TWiV 1276
• 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 [email protected]

Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

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• Immune 100 live at the Incubator
• Spliced segments of adenovirus mRNA (PNAS)
• An amazing sequence in adenovirus mRNA (Cell)
• Nobel Prize for mRNA splicing (Nobel)
• A predominant undecanucleotide in adenovirus late mRNAs (Cell)
• Splicing RNA with Phillip A. Sharp (ASM)
• Protein production in the gut by engineered phage (Nat Biotech)
• Engineered phage T4 (Curr Op Virol)
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

Brianne – Can You Identify These Lines from Classic SciFi Novels? Kathy – Saturday Morning Physics, Photograph 51 and JCE article Rich – Wikipedia:Wiki Science Competition 2025 in the United States Jolene – Data visualization workshop Vincent – Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death by Nick Lane

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

Send your virology questions and comments to [email protected]

Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

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• Immune 100 live at the Incubator
• CDC revives debunked 'link' between childhood vaccines and autism (npr)
• A structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid (Nature pdf)
• Three Papers, Three Lessons (Am J Resp Crit Care Med)
• Discovery of Double Helix (Crick Papers)
• Jim Watson was blinded by DNA (NY Times)
• What Rosalind Franklin contributed (Nature)
• EBV reprograms autoreactive B-cells in lupus (Sci Transl Med)
• EBV and the making of lupus (Sci Transl Med)
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

Brianne – Virus snowflakes Kathy – When "Physic(k)s Lost Its 'k' and other Language Quarks Vincent – The Peripheral by William Gibson

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

Send your virology questions and comments to [email protected]

Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

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• Autism and Vaccines (CDC: Vaccine Safety)
• A new road to eradication- WPV 1 in Germany from Afghanistan (Reuters)
• Ethiopia confirms first outbreak of Marburg virus disease (WHO: Ethiopia)
• Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Viruses (HPAIV) Associated with Major Southern Elephant Seal Decline at South Georgia (Communications Biology)
• Avian flu has decimated world's largest breeding colony of southern elephant seals (CIDRAP)
• Washington resident is infected with a different type of bird flu (AP News)
• Pelagic Seabirds (OceanAminals)
• That sounds far away: Multiple transatlantic incursions of highly pathogenic avian influenza clade 2.3.4.4b A(H5N5) virus into North America and spillover to mammals (Cell Reports)
• Regional voices, different choices: Parents' and caregivers' HPV vaccine attitudes in the northeast and Southeast United States (Vaccine)
• Wastewater for measles (WasterWater Scan)
• Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Rubeola)
• Tracking Measles Cases in the U.S. (Johns Hopkins)
• Measles vaccine recommendations from NYP (jpg)
• Weekly measles and rubella monitoring (Government of Canada)
• Measles (WHO)
• Get the FACTS about measles (NY State Department of Health)
• Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola))
• Measles vaccine (CDC Measles (Rubeola))
• Presumptive evidence of measles immunity (CDC)
• Contraindications and precautions to measles vaccination (CDC)
• 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)
• Respiratory virus activity levels (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• Weekly surveillance report: cliff notes (CDC FluView)
• ACIP Recommendations Summary (CDC: Influenza)
• Emergence of seasonal influenza A(H3N2) variants with immune escape potential warrants enhanced molecular and epidemiological surveillance for the 2025–2026 season (University of Toronto Press)
• Types of Influenza Viruses (CDC: Influenza (flu))
• With an absent CDC and mismatched 'subclade K' flu strain, experts face upcoming season with uncertainty (CIDRAP)
• Influenza Vaccine Composition for the 2025-2026 U.S. Influenza Season(FDA)
• RSV: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• Respiratory Diseases (Yale School of Public Health)
• US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection)
• Long-term impact of nirsevimab on prevention of respiratory syncytial virus infection using a real-word global database (Journal of Infection)
• Vaccines for Adults (CDC: Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection (RSV))
• Economic Analysis of Protein Subunit and mRNA RSV Vaccination in Adults aged 50-59 Years (CDC: ACIP)
• Estimating Risk of Guillain-Barré Syndrome in US Medicare-Enrolled Older Adults Following Medically Attended Respiratory Syncytial Virus Disease (CID)
• FDA Requires Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) Warning in the Prescribing Information for RSV Vaccines Abrysvo and Arexvy: FDA Safety Communication (FDA)
• Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• COVID-19 deaths (CDC)
• Respiratory Illnesses Data Channel (CDC: Respiratory Illnesses)
• COVID-19 national and regional trends (CDC)
• COVID-19 variant tracker (CDC)
• SARS-CoV-2 genomes galore (Nextstrain)
• Antigenic and Virological Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 Variant BA.3.2, XFG, and NB.1.8.1 (bioRxiV)
• COVID-19 vaccination is associated with reduced complications in pediatric patients with atopic dermatitis (Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology)
• Where to get pemgarda (Pemgarda)
• EUA for the pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 (INVIYD)
• Infusion center (Prime Fusions)
• Risk mitigation of shared room ventilation and filtration on SARS-CoV-2 transmission: a multicenter test-negative study (Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology)
• CDC Quarantine guidelines (CDC)
• NIH COVID-19 treatment guidelines (NIH)
• Drug interaction checker (University of Liverpool)
• Help your eligible patients access PAXLOVID with the PAXCESS Patient Support Program (Pfizer Pro)
• Understanding Coverage Options (PAXCESS)
• Infectious Disease Society guidelines 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)
• 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
• Resistance Exercise Therapy After COVID-19 Infection(JAMA Open Network)
• Reaching out to US house representative
• Letters read on TWiV 1272
• 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 [email protected]

Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.