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A Mother’s Loss: A Mission to Protect Children from Preventable Illness With Serese Marotta Deputy CEO of Vaccinate Your Family
In this deeply moving episode, I had the honor of sitting down with Serese Marotta, Deputy CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, to discuss the critical importance of protecting our children as we head into respiratory illness seasons. Serese bravely opened up about her own personal tragedy, losing her healthy, five-year-old son, Joseph to H1N1 influence. Hearing Serese’s story is a powerful reminder of why we do this work and why evidence-based education is so vital. We dove into real-world barriers families face, why even healthy children need protection against preventable illnesses, and how system-wide burnout in...
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We have vaccines for a reason. The fact that we have vaccines available to us, you know, this is not my phrase, but it's one year so often,
it's like vaccines are a victim of their own success. We don't normally see these diseases anymore. Of course, right now, flu continues to be a problem. I mean, right now we are continuing
to see pediatric flu deaths each and every year. Since 2004, when we started recording pediatric flu deaths, Over 2,700 children have lost their lives to flu. That's an enormous number.
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