{"id":2291,"date":"2023-01-24T20:41:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T02:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=2291"},"modified":"2023-01-24T20:41:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T02:41:52","slug":"do-i-need-another-booster-the-cdc-director-answered-your-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/01\/24\/do-i-need-another-booster-the-cdc-director-answered-your-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Do I need another booster? The CDC director answered your questions."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2023\/01\/20\/questions-answers-cdc-rochelle-walensky\/\">Washington Post<\/a>) With another covid winter upon us, a new variant,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2023\/01\/08\/new-covid-variant-xbb15\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2\" target=\"_blank\">XBB.1.5<\/a>, is dominating the latest coronavirus surge in the United States. Although hospitalizations have\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2023\/01\/22\/covid-declining-flu-rsv-tripledemic\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2\" target=\"_blank\">started to decline<\/a>, public health experts warn the country still faces elevated levels of the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/coronavirus\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2\" target=\"_blank\">coronavirus<\/a>\u00a0and other respiratory viruses. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, answered reader questions about the coronavirus with Washington Post health reporters\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/sabrina-malhi\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4\" target=\"_blank\">Sabrina Malhi<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/fenit-nirappil\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4\" target=\"_blank\">Fenit Nirappil<\/a>\u00a0on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Washington Post) With another covid winter upon us, a new variant,\u00a0XBB.1.5, is dominating the latest coronavirus surge in the United States. Although hospitalizations have\u00a0started to decline, public health experts warn the country still faces elevated levels of the\u00a0coronavirus\u00a0and other respiratory viruses. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, answered reader questions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid","category-vaccine-headlines"],"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\/2291","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=2291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2292,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions\/2292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}