{"id":8068,"date":"2024-11-06T10:01:33","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T16:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8068"},"modified":"2024-11-06T10:01:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T16:01:36","slug":"do-the-covid-vaccines-provide-long-lasting-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/11\/06\/do-the-covid-vaccines-provide-long-lasting-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Do the Covid vaccines provide long-lasting protection?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/durable-are-mrna-covid-vaccines-rcna178457\">NBC News<\/a> The CDC is recommending that older adults get a second Covid shot in the spring. How durable are the vaccines? In October, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/media\/releases\/2024\/s1023-covid-19-vaccine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>&nbsp;recommended that high-risk adults get a second updated Covid vaccine to bolster their protection against the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The agency&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/media\/releases\/2024\/s1023-covid-19-vaccine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">now recommends<\/a>&nbsp;that people ages 65 and up and those with weakened immune systems get a second dose of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/new-covid-vaccine-what-know-when-available-timing-rcna167121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2024-25 vaccine<\/a>&nbsp;six months after their first dose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not the first time the agency has advised or allowed for an additional dose for at-risk groups several months after the first. In the spring of 2022, officials authorized a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/acip\/evidence-to-recommendations\/covid-19-second-booster-dose-etr.html#:~:text=On%20March%2029%2C%202022%2C%20the,after%20receipt%20of%20a%20first\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">second booster dose<\/a>\u00a0after the initial fall rollout. The same pattern followed in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2023\/04\/18\/fda-says-older-adults-and-the-immunocompromised-may-get-a-spring-booster-dose-of-covid-vaccine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spring of 2023<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/cdc-advisers-recommend-spring-covid-boosters-older-adults-rcna140871\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spring of 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/durable-are-mrna-covid-vaccines-rcna178457\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC News The CDC is recommending that older adults get a second Covid shot in the spring. How durable are the vaccines? In October, the&nbsp;Centers for Disease Control and Prevention&nbsp;recommended that high-risk adults get a second updated Covid vaccine to bolster their protection against the virus. The agency&nbsp;now recommends&nbsp;that people ages 65 and up and [&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-8068","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\/8068","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=8068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8069,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8068\/revisions\/8069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}