{"id":6481,"date":"2025-08-30T23:02:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T23:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/30\/federal-vaccine-recommendations-rsv-covid-flu\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T23:02:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T23:02:19","slug":"federal-vaccine-recommendations-rsv-covid-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/30\/federal-vaccine-recommendations-rsv-covid-flu\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: How the U.S. health system can clear up confusion surrounding seasonal vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Opinion: How the U.S. health system can clear up confusion surrounding seasonal vaccines<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Each fall, nurses and doctors brace for an all-too-familiar\u00a0seasonal\u00a0surge. Patients struggle to breathe. Older adults lean forward, lips pursed as if trying to drink\u00a0air\u00a0through a straw. Infants take more than one shallow breath per second, their wide-eyed panic reflected in their parents\u2019 faces. As an internist, I have cared for too many young, previously healthy patients laid low by infection, some requiring a breathing tube or other intensive care.<\/p>\n<p>More than ever before, much of this suffering is avoidable, particularly because of immunizations for\u00a0seasonal\u00a0influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/08\/30\/federal-vaccine-recommendations-rsv-covid-flu\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Dave A. Chokshi<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/08\/30\/federal-vaccine-recommendations-rsv-covid-flu\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion: How the U.S. health system can clear up confusion surrounding seasonal vaccines Each fall, nurses and doctors brace for an all-too-familiar\u00a0seasonal\u00a0surge. Patients struggle to breathe. Older adults lean forward, lips pursed as if trying to drink\u00a0air\u00a0through a straw. Infants take more than one shallow breath per second, their wide-eyed panic reflected in their parents\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2267,2143,1428,2179,2371,2195],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-6481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19","category-first-opinion","category-health","category-infectious-disease","category-states","category-vaccines","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}