Download and read past issues of our Parents PACK e-newsletter in HTML and PDF format. Each monthly issue contains interesting and useful information about vaccines and vaccine-preventable diseases.

Read 2023 issues online

• December | PDF
  RRPF – “While We Breathe, We Hope”
• November | PDF
  Born almost deaf, Karen did not let rubella define her
• October | PDF
  RSV and babies — A bit of hope
• September | PDF
  A new vaccine … and it’s for adults! Find out more about RSV and the vaccine.
• August | PDF
  Pneumococcal Vaccines for Adults (Part 2): The Latest News
• July | PDF
  Pneumococcal Vaccines for Kids (Part 1): The Latest News
• June | PDF
  COVID-19 vaccine: What’s in the vial?
• May | PDF
  3 practical matters regarding COVID-19 in May 2023
• April | PDF
  How many trivia questions about vaccine ingredients can you answer?
• March | PDF
  Does my child benefit from a COVID-19 vaccine?
• February | PDF
  Adult vaccine recommendations? What should I know?
• January | PDF
  Science Made Easy: Viral Transmission, Human Immunity & the Gap Called “Immunity Debt”

Select articles from previous years

2022

• What is RSV?
• Flu vaccine: What’s in the vial?
• DYK why HPV doesn’t mean cheating? Take our quiz.

2021

• Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) & vaccines: The risks and recommendations
• Viral shedding and COVID-19: What can and can’t happen
• Medications and COVID-19 vaccines: What you should know
• Long-term side effects of COVID-19 vaccine? What we know.

2020

• Is your family putting on and taking off their masks safely? 
• Dissecting social media: What you should know

2019

• Symptoms: To treat or not to treat?

2017

• Talking about vaccines with your kids

2016

• Did you notice three things that went away in 2016?
• Ben Franklin — Pro-vaccine before vaccines were invented?