Author: Sara Saporta-Keating
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GUEST OPINION: Families: Take action against measles before summer travel
As your family prepares for summer travel, I strongly recommend ensuring you and your children are up to date on your measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine. As a pediatric infectious disease expert at Children’s Hospital Colorado and a parent of a young child, I find it incredibly challenging to see the reemergence of measles after our country…
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GUEST COLUMN: Take proactive measures to prevent kids from getting RSV
Respiratory season came early this year, and the numbers are worse than we’ve seen in a long time. Households, clinics and hospital emergency rooms are getting hit hard with a heavy dose of respiratory syncytial virus (better known as RSV), influenza has returned to Colorado, and COVID-19 numbers are rising. It’s important for us to…