TWiV 1046: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

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. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode 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) Contribute to our Floating Doctors fundraiser at PWB Letters read on TWiV 1046 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]