{"id":10198,"date":"2025-09-03T13:13:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10198"},"modified":"2025-09-03T13:14:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:14:01","slug":"everything-you-need-to-know-about-flu-shots-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/09\/03\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-flu-shots-this-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything You Need to Know About Flu Shots This Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/02\/well\/flu-shot-vaccine-cost-side-effects.html\">NYT<\/a> It\u2019s that time of year again. School is starting, the days are getting shorter and the familiar \u201cflu shots available\u201d signs are appearing outside pharmacies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each year, the flu&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/24\/well\/flu-deaths-hospitalizations.html\">kills tens of thousands of people<\/a>&nbsp;in the United States, on average, and hundreds of thousands are hospitalized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How can you protect yourself this season? Here\u2019s what you need to know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"link-67559014\">Should I get a flu vaccine?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/season\/2025-2026.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"recommends annual flu shots, opens in a new window\">recommends annual flu shots<\/a>&nbsp;for everyone 6 months and older, including young, healthy people with no underlying conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You need a new vaccine even if you got one last year, both because the antibodies from last year\u2019s shot will have waned by now and because the shots are tailored each year to target different flu strains.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\" bYFf wZ HZqb JVXEq h D EU\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT It\u2019s that time of year again. School is starting, the days are getting shorter and the familiar \u201cflu shots available\u201d signs are appearing outside pharmacies. Each year, the flu&nbsp;kills tens of thousands of people&nbsp;in the United States, on average, and hundreds of thousands are hospitalized. How can you protect yourself this season? Here\u2019s what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines","category-influenza"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10199,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10198\/revisions\/10199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}