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Health and Fitness
August 25, 2025
National Immunization Awareness Month
Keep Your Lungs Healthy
Respiratory virus season is right around the corner, and we want to highlight one of the most effective ways to protect your lungs - vaccines. They reduce infectious diseases, prevent outbreaks and save millions of lives. Now is the time to make sure you and your loved ones are protected from vaccine.
The following vaccines are available to prevent respiratory illnesses this fall and winter:
DTaP or Tdap vaccination, which protects against whooping cough, diphtheria and tetanus. Vaccination is recommended for all ages.
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RSV vaccination is recommended for older adults. Immunization is also recommended to help protect infants and some toddlers at increased risk of severe illness. A vaccination can be given during pregnancy or your baby can receive an RSV antibody.
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Pneumococcal vaccination is recommended for all adults 50+ and adults 19+ with certain chronic medical conditions like asthma, COPD, diabetes and heart disease.
In partnership with Pfizer.
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Be sure to also ask your healthcare provider about pneumococcal vaccination for children, and about scheduling flu and COVID19 shots later this year!
Top Resources for You
- Understand infectious respiratory disease in our free, selfpaced online course.
- Check out vaccination information that will help protect your lungs.
- Learn all about how vaccines prevent disease and save lives.
Meet a Researcher
New COVID19 variants keep appearing, evading the existing immunity that normally keeps people safe from getting sick. Dr. Ana S. Gonzalez Reiche, a researcher at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, is studying how the virus changes in people with longterm infections. The goal: predict future changes in COVID19 and help develop vaccines that will guard against new variants.
Meet Dr. Gonzalez Reiche