CDC updated RSV vaccination guidelines

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated guidelines around respiratory syncytial virus — more commonly known as RSV — and who should get vaccinated. Along with COVID-19 and the flu, the virus peaks during the fall and winter months.

For more on the new guidelines and how to prepare for a likely uptick in cases, host Peter O’Dowd speaks to Dr. Robert Hopkins Jr., medical director for the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases and an internal medicine physician at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.