{"id":886,"date":"2022-10-13T19:28:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T00:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=886"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:22:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:22:07","slug":"please-just-get-the-dang-updated-covid-booster-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/10\/13\/please-just-get-the-dang-updated-covid-booster-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Just Get the Dang Updated COVID Booster Shot\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/please-just-get-the-dang-updated-covid-booster-shot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GQ<\/a> &#8211; It&#8217;s good for you, it&#8217;s good for your community, and it&#8217;s widely available right now.\u00a0This time around a pair of new vaccines, the updated or \u201cbivalent\u201d \u00a0boosters from Pfizer and Moderna, could curb another winter spike. They\u2019re both FDA-approved, and they both are designed to protect\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mskcc.org\/coronavirus\/new-bivalent-omicron-covid-19-boosters-effectiveness-safety-and-other-important-information#:~:text=How%20effective%20are%20the%20bivalent,from%20all%20COVID%2D19%20strains.\" target=\"_blank\">against the latest omicron sub-variants<\/a>. They&#8217;re available near you right now, and if you&#8217;re in the U.S., you&#8217;re almost certainly eligible to get one. And, \u201cThey are probably our best hope of avoiding severe illness, hospitalization and potentially long COVID as we head into the cooler months,\u201d says Dr. Seth Cohen, medical director of Infection Prevention at University of Washington Medical Center.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GQ &#8211; It&#8217;s good for you, it&#8217;s good for your community, and it&#8217;s widely available right now.\u00a0This time around a pair of new vaccines, the updated or \u201cbivalent\u201d \u00a0boosters from Pfizer and Moderna, could curb another winter spike. They\u2019re both FDA-approved, and they both are designed to protect\u00a0against the latest omicron sub-variants. They&#8217;re available near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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-886","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\/886","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":887,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}