{"id":236690,"date":"2026-05-06T22:33:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T03:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/older-people-with-hiv-are-especially-vulnerable-to-influenza-yet-this-group-remains-understudied"},"modified":"2026-05-06T22:33:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T03:33:26","slug":"older-people-with-hiv-are-especially-vulnerable-to-influenza-yet-this-group-remains-understudied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/older-people-with-hiv-are-especially-vulnerable-to-influenza-yet-this-group-remains-understudied","title":{"rendered":"Older people with HIV are especially vulnerable to influenza, yet this group remains understudied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/older-people-with-hiv-are-especially-vulnerable-to-influenza-yet-this-group-remains-understudied.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1172\/jci.insight.199232\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1172\/jci.insight.199232<\/a> Here, Savita G. Pahwa &amp; team demonstrate high-dose vaccination for influenza strengthens immunity in older adults with HIV after prior standard dosing, but not all strain-specific weaknesses were overcome.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<sup>1<\/sup>Department of Microbiology and Immunology.<\/p>\n<p><sup>2<\/sup>Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health <i>Science<\/i>s; and.<\/p>\n<p><sup>3<\/sup>Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1172\/jci.insight.199232 Here, Savita G. Pahwa &amp; team demonstrate high-dose vaccination for influenza strengthens immunity in older adults with HIV after prior standard dosing, but not all strain-specific weaknesses were overcome. 1Department of Microbiology and Immunology. 2Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences; and. 3Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}