{"id":4870,"date":"2023-10-10T15:22:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T20:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=4870"},"modified":"2023-10-10T15:22:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T20:22:40","slug":"the-flu-vaccine-works-in-a-way-most-people-dont-appreciate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/10\/10\/the-flu-vaccine-works-in-a-way-most-people-dont-appreciate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Flu Vaccine Works\u2014In a Way Most People Don\u2019t Appreciate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/the-flu-vaccine-works-in-a-way-most-people-dont-appreciate\/\">Scientific American<\/a> The CDC is emphasizing how the flu vaccine can turn the virus from \u201cWild to Mild\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s like clockwork: first comes a brisk fall breeze, then comes the public health push to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/when-and-why-you-should-get-a-flu-shot1\/\">get a flu shot<\/a>. But the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s messaging this year might look a little different from previous vaccination seasons. The agency has launched a messaging campaign dubbed \u201cWild to Mild\u201d that uses adorable critters to illustrate how a vaccine can tame a bout with the flu by reducing its strength from that of an elephant or a lion to that of a mouse or a kitten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The framing might come as a surprise to those used to a blunter way of talking about vaccines: get vaccinated or get sick. But Wild to Mild is designed to be a more honest, nuanced portrayal of the benefits of the influenza vaccine, which scientists have long recognized is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/vaccines-need-not-completely-stop-covid-transmission-to-curb-the-pandemic1\/\">better at reducing serious infections than at preventing infection altogether<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific American The CDC is emphasizing how the flu vaccine can turn the virus from \u201cWild to Mild\u201d. It\u2019s like clockwork: first comes a brisk fall breeze, then comes the public health push to&nbsp;get a flu shot. But the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s messaging this year might look a little different from [&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-4870","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\/4870","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=4870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4871,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870\/revisions\/4871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}