{"id":3988,"date":"2023-12-20T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=3988"},"modified":"2023-12-20T23:52:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T04:52:35","slug":"just-15-of-canadians-got-updated-covid-vaccines-this-fall-new-figures-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/just-15-of-canadians-got-updated-covid-vaccines-this-fall-new-figures-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Just 15% of Canadians got updated COVID vaccines this fall, new figures show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadians raced to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in the first years of the pandemic, but data suggests there\u2019s far less of a rush to get the latest shots available this fall.<\/p>\n<p>Federal figures show only 15 per cent of the population aged five and up had received an updated vaccine by Dec.&nbsp;3. And while older age groups had higher uptake rates, more than half of higher-risk older adults still hadn\u2019t gotten a dose by early December, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadians raced to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in the first years of the pandemic, but data suggests there\u2019s far less of a rush to get the latest shots available this fall.<\/p>\n<p>Federal figures show only 15 per cent of the population aged five and up had received an updated vaccine by Dec.&nbsp;3. And while older age groups had higher uptake rates, more than half of higher-risk older adults still hadn\u2019t gotten a dose by early December, either.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/just-15-of-canadians-got-updated-covid-vaccines-this-fall-new-figures-show\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Just 15% of Canadians got updated COVID vaccines this fall, new figures show<\/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":[96,18,651,593,254,14,15,47,283],"class_list":["post-3988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-jn-1","tag-mrna-vaccines","tag-novavax","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-vaccines","tag-variants","tag-world-health-organization","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988","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=3988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3990,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988\/revisions\/3990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}