Blog posts

It took me a while to see Hep B for what it was: an intergenerational problem for my family.

I’ve overcome so much medically. But I can’t beat measles and other diseases on my own.

Every time I get sick, my immune system treats it as something it's never seen before—a complete unknown.

Measles vaccine became widely available two years later, when I was in first grade.

Love your neighbor as yourself, including by protecting them from disease. Three faith leaders speak on the importance of vaccination.

The pandemic took me back to when polio stalked every neighborhood in America.

The vaccine didn't exist when I was a teen. I truly wish it had been available, because cancer was brutal.

If somebody had told me they were vaccinated, I probably would have told them that was a sin.

I was eleven years old, and in the early stages of meningococcal meningitis. Nobody recognized how sick I was.

Whooping cough? I didn't think people got that anymore. Our daughter was a five week old newborn.