{"id":4687,"date":"2023-09-19T21:01:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T02:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=4687"},"modified":"2023-09-19T21:02:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T02:02:04","slug":"are-seniors-prepared-for-co-circulating-respiratory-viruses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/09\/19\/are-seniors-prepared-for-co-circulating-respiratory-viruses\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Seniors Prepared for Co-circulating Respiratory Viruses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.precisionvaccinations.com\/2023\/09\/19\/are-seniors-prepared-co-circulating-respiratory-viruses\">Precision Vaccinations<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>For the first time, seniors can prepare to defend themselves against&nbsp;co-circulating influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and the betacoronavirus&nbsp;that causes COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vaccines can provide life-saving protection against all three viral respiratory diseases, says the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the fall season&#8217;s increasing number of cases, now is an excellent time to take action, says the CDC&#8217;s new Director,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/about\/cdcdirector\/check-in.html\">Mandy K. Cohen<\/a>, MD, MPH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of September 19, 2023, the CDC recommends these approved vaccines for older adults, who are at a higher risk of severe illness from these diseases. Furthermore, clinicians play a vital role in ensuring that older adults know they can now protect themselves by encouraging them to stay current on respiratory vaccinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Precision Vaccinations For the first time, seniors can prepare to defend themselves against&nbsp;co-circulating influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and the betacoronavirus&nbsp;that causes COVID-19. Vaccines can provide life-saving protection against all three viral respiratory diseases, says the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). With the fall season&#8217;s increasing number of cases, now is an [&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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaccine-headlines"],"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\/4687","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=4687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4689,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4687\/revisions\/4689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}