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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.

Flooded with guilt and fear, I vowed to never vaccinate myself or my family ever again. That's how the anti-vaccine movement hooks you in.

I was anti-vaccine before it went mainstream. Before COVID, before Wakefield, and before even the internet.

Purity culture infiltrates even the most sanitized spaces—including our doctor’s offices. It puts the maintenance of sexual purity over an individual’s health.

I've treated RSV in the hospital. But when my own son became a patient, I learned firsthand just how difficult it is.