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My life has completely changed because of a virus that I knew very little about. Unfortunately, the vaccine came too late for me.

Over spring break, Henry decided to spend time with me. Just six days later, the world as we knew it would never be the same.

I was the epitome of low risk. Then a COVID infection left me, and millions like me, disabled.

When I was young, I was the only kid in the whole school with a disability from polio. Years later I began to feel the long-term effects.

Chickenpox was almost a rite of passage when I grew up. My perspective changed when I starting working as a triage nurse in a children's hospital.

There is no cure or fix for Shingles. I would have taken the two-dose Shingrix shot if only I had known about it.

Nobody wants their kids to be sick. To have a child almost die from a virus, though? That’s a whole different level of powerlessness.

I learned about pertussis the hard way: by being part of an outbreak.

What was a cough for my daughter put our baby son in the PICU. It's my greatest hope we get a vaccine.

Tara Court had meningitis at age three. Learn more about her memories from that time and what she wants you to know.

We expected our pandemic baby to get sick eventually, but we did not expect what RSV would do.

I told my doctor about what I thought was a heat rash. What happened next still gives me nightmares.