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.

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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

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