In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello discuss with disgust the decline and fall of American public health and the rise of “only me” when highlighting completion of the US withdrawal from the WHO and possibility of making IPV and MMR optional vaccines, before Dr. Griffin then deep dives into recent statistics RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the Wasterwater Scan dashboard, Johns Hopkins measles tracker, Europe losing its measles elimination status, first measles death in Mexico, almost 1000 measles cases in South Carolina, where to find PEMGARDA, how to access and pay for Paxlovid, long COVID treatment center, the effectiveness of this season’s influenza vaccine, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions and contacting your federal government representative to stop the assault on science and biomedical research.

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US completes withdrawal from World Health Organization (AP News)
Rejecting Decades of Science, Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional (NY Times)
A Frightening Interview (Beyond the Noise)
Unexplained Pauses in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Surveillance: Erosion of the Public Evidence Base for Health Policy (Annals of Internal Medicine)
Wastewater for measles (WasterWater Scan)
UK among 6 European countries losing measles elimination status (Dougall MD: DG Alerts)
European Regional Verification Commission for Measles and Rubella Elimination (RVC) (WHO: Europe)
Measles Outbreak Associated with an Infectious Traveler — Colorado, May–June 2025 (CDC: MMWR)
South Carolina measles cases hit 789, surpassing Texas' 2025 outbreak total (Reuters)
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)
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)
States across the country report first measles cases of year(CIDRAP)
First measles death confirmed in Mexico in 2026 (Mexico News)
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)
Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness Among Children With and Without Underlying Conditions(Pediatrics)
OPTION 2: XOFLUZA $50 Cash Pay Option(xofluza)
RSV: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
Respiratory Diseases (Yale School of Public Health)
US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection)
Vaccines for Adults (CDC: Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection (RSV))
Economic Analysis of Protein Subunit and mRNA RSV Vaccination in Adults aged 50-59 Years (CDC: ACIP)
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