TWiV 1234: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello note that history is being rewritten for justification of changes in COVID vaccine guidelines including myocarditis incidence and the Great Barrington Declaration ignoring presentations at the April 2025 ACIP, the response by the medical community to these changed guidelines, before Dr. Griffin discusses how vaccination associates with reduced dementia risk before deep diving into recent statistics on measles epidemic, RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections the Wasterwater Scan dashboard, a potential new influenza antiviral durg, whether or not the NB.1.8.1 should be included in the fall 2025 vaccines, immunization recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines, where to find PEMGARDA, provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center’s long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, associaton of remesdivir administration and long-term sequelae and contacting your federal government representative to stop the assault on science and biomedical research.

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Links for this episode

• FDA to look again at myocarditis risk from mRNA-based COVID-19 jabs in young men (FirstWord PHARMA)
• Great Barrington Declaration (Great Barrington Declaration)
• Debunking Herd Immunity: A Review of We Want Them Infected (Global Autoimmune Institute
• Scientific consensus on the COVID-19 pandemic (LANCET)
• John Snow, memo vaccines-plus strategy (John Snow Memorandum)
• This CDC Resignation Should Scare You (Substack: Beyond the Noise)
• COVID-19–Associated Hospitalizations — COVID-NET, April 2025 Update (CDC: National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases)
• Leading Medical Professional Societies, Patient Sue HHS, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for Unlawful, Unilateral Vaccine Changes (ACP: American College of Physicians)
• Medical groups sue HHS, Kennedy over COVID vaccine policy changes(CIDRAP)
• Lower risk of dementia with AS01-adjuvanted vaccination against shingles and respiratory syncytial virus infections (Vaccines)
• Influenza vaccination reduces dementia risk (Ageing Research Reviews)
• Wastewater for measles (WasterWater Scan)
• Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Rubeola)
• New Mexico announces measles outbreak in a county detention facility(AP News)
• Weekly measles and rubella monitoring (Government of Canada)
• Measles vaccine recommendations from NYP (jpg)
• 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)
• Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola))
• 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)
• 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: clift notes (CDC FluView)
• Cidara Therapeutics Announces Positive Topline Results from its Phase 2b NAVIGATE Trial Evaluating CD388, a Non-Vaccine Preventative of Seasonal Influenza (CIDARA Therapeutics)
• Experimental flu drug may protect better than flu vaccines(CIDRAP)
• FDA-CDC-DOD: 2025-2046 influenza vaccine composition (FDA)
• RSV: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection)
• Readmission Following Respiratory Syncytial Virus Hospitalization among Children