{"podcast":{"title":"This Week in Virology","slug":"this-week-in-virology-581835","podcast_index_feed_id":581835,"rss_url":"https://feeds.feedburner.com/twivmp3","website_url":"http://www.microbe.tv/twiv","image_url":"http://www.microbe.tv/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/TWiV_v3_white.jpg","author":"Vincent Racaniello (twiv@microbe.tv)","episode_count":99,"summary":"TWiV is a weekly netcast about viruses - the kind that make you sick. Professors Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler and science writer Alan Dove and guests deconstruct viruses, how they cause illness, and dissect the latest research.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-12T04:17:26.143438+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-virology-581835"},"episode":{"title":"TWiV 1330: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin","slug":"twiv-1330-clinical-update-with-dr-daniel-griffin","published_at":"2026-06-13T04:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-virology-581835/twiv-1330-clinical-update-with-dr-daniel-griffin","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-virology-581835","url":"https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-1330/","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/twiv/TWiV1330.mp3?dest-id=25528","summary":"In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello opine on the recent executive order on the routine childhood vaccination schedule, the Ebola outbreak in the Congo and Uganda including the fast track trials for 2 vaccine candidates and antivirals, recent Hantavirus infections, use of quarantined “Hantavirus” patients for the governmental propaganda machine, use of ribavirin and other antivirals for Hantavirus associated cardiopulmonary disease, before Dr. Griffin deep dives into the measles outbreak, recent statistics RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the Wasterwater Scan dashboard, Johns Hopkins measles tracker, the measles outbreak in Bangladesh, as well as in a daycare center in Texas in 2025, how to access and pay for Paxlovid, FDA approval of a second COVID-19 antiviral drug, where to go for answers about long COVID-19, use of convalescent sera for COVID-19 treatment and contacting your federal government representative to stop the assault on science and biomedical research. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Childhood Vaccine Hesitancy (NEJM) One Year In: Public Views of a Changing Public Health Landscape (Harvard School of Public Health) Rotavirus Vaccine Coverage and Potential Barriers Among US Children Born From 2007 to 2024 (Pediatrics) Texas reports New World screwworm in 3-week-old calf (CIDRAP) USDA Confirms First Case of New World Screwworm in a Dog in Lea County, New Mexico, Fourth Case in Texas (USDA: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service) Confirmed Detections of New World Screwworm (USDA: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service) Mexico reports more human New World screwworm infections (CIDRAP) Frequency and persistence of post-acute symptoms after chikungunya,…","meta_description":"In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello opine on the recent executive order on the routine childhood vaccination schedule, th…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4265,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/this-week-in-virology-581835/episodes/twiv-1330-clinical-update-with-dr-daniel-griffin/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-virology-581835/twiv-1330-clinical-update-with-dr-daniel-griffin.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}