TWiV 1198: Measles and clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello deliberate the effect of the absence of US foreign aid on the Ebola outbreak in Uganda and death of two children, continued use of nOPV2 in Gaza and the utter failure of type 2 poliovirus removal from the oral poliovirus vaccine, growing measles outbreak in the US including the death of a second child, measles infection parties, the use of fat soluble vitamin A and fish liver oil as anti-viral therapies as well as the history and proven safety of the measles vaccine before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the WasterwaterScan dashboard, where to find PEMGARDA, what happens when antiviral therapy is delayed, provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center’s long COVID treatment center, and where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, long COVID interventions. Show notes at https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-1198/ Become a patron of TWiV at https://microbe.tv/contribute ——————————— OUR SCIENCE PODCASTS ——————————— •This Week in Virology https://bit.ly/30uUhrX This Week in Parasitism https://bit.ly/3ndUNUZ •This Week in Microbiology https://bit.ly/33tOUeO •Urban Agriculture http://microbe.tv/urbanag •This Week in Evolution https://bit.ly/3ne1bf5 •Immune https://bit.ly/2HOyCVb •This Week in Neuroscience https://bit.ly/2So12Yd •Infectious Disease Puscast https://bit.ly/3K4EKF0 – Who Am I? – I’m Vincent Racaniello, Earth’s Virology Professor, and I believe that education should be free. I’m also a professor of virology at Columbia University in New York. I’ve been doing research on viruses since 1976, and teaching virology in classrooms and online since 1999. On this YouTube channel I share videos of my lectures, podcasts, and more. New videos are uploaded several times each week. I do not run ads on our work as it is disruptive to learning. We depend on your support. If you would like to support our work, go to https://www.microbe.tv/contribute/ MicrobeTV appreciates your donation and your support of our mission. Our budget and ongoing financial health rely on accounting for and accepting irrevocable, non-refundable donations from the public. Therefore, MicrobeTV considers all donations to be nonrefundable. Content in this video should not be construed as medical advice. ——————————————————————— #microbe #viruses #coronavirus #pandemic ———————————————————————