TWiV 1286: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are bewildered and dismayed by RFK Jr's announced changes in the routine childhood immunization schedule, though not unpredicted, and highlight the science and evidence which eviscerate these changes, then deep dives into recent statistics on the measles epidemic- in particular in South Carolina, RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the Wasterwater Scan dashboard, Johns Hopkins measles tracker, estimated societal burden of COVID-19 illness, deaths and hospitalizations, benefit of maternal COVID-19 vaccination, where to find PEMGARDA, how to access and pay for Paxlovid, long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, neurodevelopmental consequences of in-utero SARS-CoV-2 infection and contacting your federal government representative to stop the assault on science and biomedical research.

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Links for this episode

• Childhood Immunization Schedule by Recommendation Group (US Health and Human Service)
• Recommended Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule for Ages 18 Years or Younger (American Academy of Pediatrics)
• Kennedy Scales Back the Number of Vaccines Recommended for Children (NY Times)
• There RFK Jr. Goes Again . . .(Wall Street Journal)
• Hepatitis B Vaccination is an Essential Safety Net for Newborns (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)
• Effectiveness and Impact of Maternal RSV Immunization and Nirsevimab on Medically Attended RSV in US Children (JAMA Pediatrics)
• Rotavirus (College of Physicians of Philadelphia)
• Hepatitis A in the Era of Vaccination (Epidemiologic Reviews)
• Meningococcal Vaccination in the United States: Past, Present, And Future (Ped Drugs)
• Meningococcal Vaccination: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, United States, 2020 (CDC: MMWR)
• N.Y. DOH says childhood vaccine recommendations remain unchanged despite CDC's update (Spectrum 1 News)