{"id":5622,"date":"2023-12-26T17:32:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T23:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5622"},"modified":"2023-12-26T17:32:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T23:32:47","slug":"a-new-covid-vaccine-strategy-could-help-if-only-people-would-pay-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/12\/26\/a-new-covid-vaccine-strategy-could-help-if-only-people-would-pay-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"A new COVID vaccine strategy could help \u2014 if only people would pay attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2023\/12\/19\/1220192678\/a-new-normal-6-stories-about-the-evolving-u-s-covid-response-in-2023\">NPR<\/a> Updated COVID vaccines came to U.S. consumers this fall, promising\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2023\/09\/13\/1198803134\/covid-boosters-updated-vaccines-fda-cdc\">better protection against recent variants<\/a>. And there was new messaging too: Get an annual COVID boosters along with your flu shot every fall. But anticipated &#8220;high demand&#8221; did not materialize. By mid-December,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/respiratory-viruses\/data-research\/dashboard\/vaccination-trends-adults.html\">fewer than 20%<\/a>\u00a0of US adults had gotten the updated shot, and the CDC warned of a possible\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/emergency.cdc.gov\/han\/2023\/han00503.asp\">surge in serious illness<\/a>\u00a0if vaccination coverage fails to improve.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR Updated COVID vaccines came to U.S. consumers this fall, promising\u00a0better protection against recent variants. And there was new messaging too: Get an annual COVID boosters along with your flu shot every fall. But anticipated &#8220;high demand&#8221; did not materialize. By mid-December,\u00a0fewer than 20%\u00a0of US adults had gotten the updated shot, and the CDC warned [&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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/5622","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=5622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5623,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions\/5623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}