In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses wastewater surveillance data as a complement to emergency department visit data for tracking the incidence of influenza A and RSV, chatbot-delivered online intervention to promote seasonal Influenza vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic, temporal assessment of disparities in California COVID-19 mortality by industry, modeling the impact of a high-uptake bivalent booster scenario on the COVID-19 burden and healthcare costs in New York City, can high COVID-19 vaccination rates in adults help protect unvaccinated children, Nirmatrelvir/Ritonavir use and hospitalizations or death in previously uninfected non-hospitalized high-risk population with COVID-19, Optimal duration of systemic corticosteroids in COVID-19 treatment, and vaccination after developing long COVID.

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Wastewater surveillance data as a complement to tracking incidence of influenza A and RSV (CDC)
Chatbot-delivered online intervention to promote seasonal influenza vaccination (JAMA)
Temporal assessment of disparities in California COVID-19 mortality by industry (AOE)
CDC/HICPAC’s plan to weaken guidance for health care respiratory protection and infection control (NNU)
Modelling the impact of a high-uptake bivalent booster scenario on COVID-19 burden (The Lancet)
Can high COVID-19 vaccination rates in adults help protect unvaccinated children? (ES)
Paxlovid use and hospitalizations or death in previously uninfected high-risk population with COVID-19 (JID)
Optimal duration of systemic corticosteroids in COVID-19 treatment (OFID)
Vaccination after developing long COVID (IJID)
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Letters read on TWiV 1046
Dr. Griffin’s COVID treatment summary (pdf)
Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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