The Daily News reports on UTMB’s annual Disaster Day. Starting at 8 a.m. on Nov. 15, students, faculty and first responders will work together on a large-scale simulation. This year’s scenario recreates a chemical plant explosion, giving participants hands-on experience in triage, emergency response, and inter-agency coordination.

Do we still need to get a covid vaccine? The answer is yes, write Drs. Megan Berman and Richard Rupp in their latest Vaccine Smarts column. As the virus evolves, vaccines are updated. Recent studies have shown that updated boosters still make a big difference, Berman and Rupp write.

“Acid in cooking refers to foods that are high in acidity or those that promote the release of acid in the body,” writes Dr. Samuel Mathis. Mathis explores the health benefits and risks of acidic food in his latest column for the Daily News.

Drs. Norbert Herzog and David Niesel take a look at respiratory syncytial virus RSV, a little-known but common and highly contagious respiratory virus that can cause serious disease in people over 60, infants and young children. Niesel and Herzog report on a new study that found that “those in the RSV infection group were 2.7 times more likely to have died than those in the control group.”