{"id":945,"date":"2022-10-18T09:30:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T14:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=945"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:22:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:22:05","slug":"study-shows-benefits-of-covid-19-vaccines-and-boosters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/10\/18\/study-shows-benefits-of-covid-19-vaccines-and-boosters\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Shows Benefits of COVID-19 Vaccines and Boosters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/directorsblog.nih.gov\/2022\/10\/18\/study-shows-benefits-of-covid-19-vaccines-and-boosters\/\" target=\"_blank\">NIH Director&#8217;s Blog<\/a> &#8211; As colder temperatures settle in and people spend more time gathered indoors, cases of COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses almost certainly will rise. That\u2019s why, along with scheduling your annual flu shot, it\u2019s now recommended that those age 5 and up should get an updated COVID-19 booster shot [1,2]. Not only will these new boosters guard against the original strain of the coronavirus that started the pandemic, they will heighten your immunity to the Omicron variant and several of the subvariants that continue to circulate in the U.S. with devastating effects. At last count, about 14.8 million people in the U.S.\u2014<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/directorsblog.nih.gov\/2022\/09\/20\/time-to-get-boosted\/\" target=\"_blank\">including me<\/a>\u2014have rolled up their sleeves to receive an updated booster shot [3]. It\u2019s a good start, but it also means that most Americans aren\u2019t fully up to date on their COVID-19 vaccines. If you or your loved ones are among them, a new study may provide some needed encouragement to make an appointment at a nearby pharmacy or clinic to get boosted [4].<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIH Director&#8217;s Blog &#8211; As colder temperatures settle in and people spend more time gathered indoors, cases of COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses almost certainly will rise. That\u2019s why, along with scheduling your annual flu shot, it\u2019s now recommended that those age 5 and up should get an updated COVID-19 booster shot [1,2]. Not only [&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-945","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\/945","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=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}