{"id":10449,"date":"2025-10-01T17:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T22:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10449"},"modified":"2025-10-01T17:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T22:20:13","slug":"im-an-infectious-disease-doctor-heres-what-happened-when-i-sat-next-to-a-vaccine-skeptic-on-a-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/10\/01\/im-an-infectious-disease-doctor-heres-what-happened-when-i-sat-next-to-a-vaccine-skeptic-on-a-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m An Infectious Disease Doctor. Here&#8217;s What Happened When I Sat Next To A Vaccine Skeptic On A Plane."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/infectious-disease-doctor-anti-vaccine-airplane_n_68d2e961e4b03fb4d93463e7\">Huff Post<\/a> &#8220;As someone who recently completed 15 years of training to become an infectious diseases physician-scientist, I can\u2019t avoid these conversations.&#8221; It\u2019s hard to believe that infectious diseases have become a political litmus test, but they are now very much part of the \u201cwith us or against us\u201d mental sorting more and more people seem to be doing these days. And the topic seems to be everywhere. Do you think the U.S. should continue\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(25)01186-9\/fulltext\">funding aid programs for diseases such as AIDS, TB and malaria<\/a>? Are you pleased or horrified about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/03\/us\/florida-vaccine-mandates.html\">Florida\u2019s plans to undo school vaccine mandates<\/a>? Do you seek out or steer clear of the annual flu vaccine?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huff Post &#8220;As someone who recently completed 15 years of training to become an infectious diseases physician-scientist, I can\u2019t avoid these conversations.&#8221; It\u2019s hard to believe that infectious diseases have become a political litmus test, but they are now very much part of the \u201cwith us or against us\u201d mental sorting more and more people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coping-with-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10450,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10449\/revisions\/10450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}