{"id":219277,"date":"2024-09-24T11:42:32","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T15:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=219277"},"modified":"2024-09-24T13:47:13","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T17:47:13","slug":"podcast-fall-and-winter-respiratory-ailments-await","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2024\/09\/podcast-fall-and-winter-respiratory-ailments-await\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Fall and Winter Respiratory Ailments Await"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These days, the question \u201cCold or flu?\u201d doesn\u2019t quite cover it when we start coughing and sneezing in the fall or winter.<\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 is still here, and we also have to deal with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), in addition to pneumonia, bronchitis, and sinus infections, and even bird flu is starting to take hold in some parts of the world.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is, even if we can\u2019t immediately tell these respiratory illnesses apart, the steps we can take to reduce the chances of spreading them apply broadly, namely hand-washing, staying home when sick, masking when symptomatic, and, most importantly for some of the viruses, vaccination.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n  <p>When we think about respiratory viruses, really vaccines are becoming a critical part of our toolkit in preventing infections, particularly among those who are at the highest risk for more severe infections. <cite> &#8212 Dr. David Banach<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>UConn Health infectious diseases experts\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UaPSP8rhmCw\">Nancy Dupont<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/find-a-provider\/physician\/Banach-David\">Dr. David Banach<\/a> explain on the <em>UConn Health Pulse<\/em> podcast.<\/p>\n<h2>Listen now:<br \/>\n<iframe style=\"border: none;min-width: min(100%, 430px);height: 150px\" title=\"Fall and Winter Respiratory Ailments Await\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=94ydk-16e1abf-pb&amp;from=pb6admin&amp;share=1&amp;download=1&amp;rtl=1&amp;fonts=Arial&amp;skin=1&amp;font-color=auto&amp;logo_link=episode_page&amp;btn-skin=3267a3\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/archives\/uconn-health-podcast\/fall-and-winter-respiratory-ailments-await\">Read the transcript.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UConn Health infectious diseases experts\u00a0Nancy Dupont\u00a0and\u00a0Dr. David Banach on recognizing, treating, and avoiding illness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":158112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2231,1868,179],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2010],"class_list":["post-219277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-well-being","category-meds","category-uconn-health"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 06:18:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219277"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219305,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219277\/revisions\/219305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/158112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219277"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=219277"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=219277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}