{"id":7998,"date":"2024-10-29T15:08:40","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T20:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7998"},"modified":"2024-10-30T07:11:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T12:11:52","slug":"comparing-the-covid-19-vaccines-how-are-they-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/10\/29\/comparing-the-covid-19-vaccines-how-are-they-different\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparing the COVID-19 Vaccines: How Are They Different?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yalemedicine.org\/news\/covid-19-vaccine-comparison\">Yale Medicine<\/a> COVID-19 is now in its fifth year, and the subvariants of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yalemedicine.org\/news\/5-things-to-know-omicron\">Omicron<\/a>\u00a0strain continue to drive infections in the United States. The good news is that vaccines, which have been updated each year since 2022, are still expected to be effective at preventing severe disease, hospitalization, and death from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yalemedicine.org\/conditions\/covid-19\">COVID<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the U.S., infants, children, and adults ages 6 months and older are eligible to be vaccinated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the SARS-CoV-2 virus mutates and new&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yalemedicine.org\/news\/covid-19-variants-of-concern-omicron\">variants<\/a>&nbsp;continue to emerge, it\u2019s important to keep up with how well the updated vaccines are performing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yalemedicine.org\/news\/covid-19-vaccine-comparison\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yale Medicine COVID-19 is now in its fifth year, and the subvariants of the\u00a0Omicron\u00a0strain continue to drive infections in the United States. The good news is that vaccines, which have been updated each year since 2022, are still expected to be effective at preventing severe disease, hospitalization, and death from\u00a0COVID. In the U.S., infants, children, [&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-7998","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\/7998","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=7998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8023,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7998\/revisions\/8023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}