Dr. BCW, Dr. Curry-Winchell, talks with the Las Vegas Sun about the Meningitis shots required for Nevada high school seniors this year.

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Dr. Bayo Curry-Winchell, a Reno family practitioner who serves as the urgent care medical director for Saint Mary’s and Carbon Health and as a member of the Governor’s Medical Advisory Board, said that children already lost so much in-person learning during the pandemic shutdown that they shouldn’t get sick with any vaccine-preventable disease now.

“As a parent myself, I always like to remind my (patients’) parents we would have had so many different diseases that would have been prevalent if we didn’t have vaccines in play,” she said. “They have really helped either eradicate or decrease the presentation of diseases that we know can sometimes be life-threatening, debilitating and really have long-lasting effects.”

The meningitis shot joins shots against the chicken pox; polio; measles, mumps and rubella; hepatitis A and B; diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis as a required vaccine.

Public health officials also recommend — but don’t require — youngsters be immunized against the flu, human papillomavirus (HPV) and COVID-19.

See what else Dr. BCW has to share as she answers questions for the Las Vegas Sun as they discuss the recent change that made meningitis shots required for Nevada high school seniors