{"id":3701,"date":"2023-12-06T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=3701"},"modified":"2023-12-07T02:22:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T07:22:33","slug":"covid-flu-vaccine-uptake-low-in-alberta-heading-into-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-flu-vaccine-uptake-low-in-alberta-heading-into-holiday-season\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID, flu vaccine uptake low in Alberta heading into holiday season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With vaccination numbers lagging and the holiday season approaching, health experts are calling on Albertans to roll up their sleeves for their flu and COVID-19 shots.<\/p>\n<p>As of Nov.&nbsp;25, 17&nbsp;people in Alberta had died of the flu during this respiratory virus season, and close to 500 were hospitalized, according to provincial data. In the same time frame, 245&nbsp;deaths and almost 2,300 hospitalizations were tied to COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With vaccination numbers lagging and the holiday season approaching, health experts are calling on Albertans to roll up their sleeves for their flu and COVID-19 shots.<\/p>\n<p>As of Nov.&nbsp;25, 17&nbsp;people in Alberta had died of the flu during this respiratory virus season, and close to 500 were hospitalized, according to provincial data. In the same time frame, 245&nbsp;deaths and almost 2,300 hospitalizations were tied to COVID-19.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-flu-vaccine-uptake-low-in-alberta-heading-into-holiday-season\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">COVID, flu vaccine uptake low in Alberta heading into holiday season<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[315,96,18,150,78,77,14,230,15],"class_list":["post-3701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alberta","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-deaths","tag-hospitalizations","tag-influenza","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-statistics","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3703,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions\/3703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}