TWiV 1022: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses autochthonous leprosy in the United States, a systematic review to identify novel clinical characteristics of Mpox virus infection and therapeutic and preventive strategies to combat the virus, two-year duration of immunity of inactivated poliovirus vaccine, evaluation of novel oral polio vaccine type 2 SIA impact in a large outbreak of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus in Nigeria, performance of rapid antigen tests to detect symptomatic and asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection, effectiveness of the COVID-19 bivalent vaccine, oral Nirmatrelvir and Ritonavir for COVID-19 in vaccinated, non-hospitalized adults ages 18-50 years, genome-wide association study of long COVID, vaccination ameliorates cellular inflammatory responses in SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections, and high incidence of autonomic dysfunction and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome in patients with long-COVID. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , RSS , email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Autochthonous leprosy in the United States (NEJM) Systematic review to identify novel clinical characteristics of Monkeypox (Archives of Virology) Two-year duration of immunity of inactivated poliovirus vaccine (JID) Evaluation of novel oral polio vaccine type 2 SIA impact in a outbreak of vaccine-derived poliovirus in Nigeria (IDSA) Performance of rapid antigen tests to detect symptomatic and asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 (AIM) Effectiveness of the COVID-19 bivalent vaccine (OFID) Oral Nirmatrelvir and Ritonavir for COVID-19 in vaccinated, non-hospitalized adults (CID) Genome-wide association study of long COVID (medRxiv) Vaccination ameliorates cellular inflammatory responses in SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections (JID) High incidence of autonomic dysfunction and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome in patients with long-COVID (AJM) Contribute to our FIMRC fundraiser at PWB Letters read on TWiV 1022 Dr. Griffin's COVID treatment summary ( pdf ) Timestamps by Jolene . Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your questions for Dr. Griffin to [email protected]