{"id":4173,"date":"2023-12-11T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4173"},"modified":"2024-01-03T00:32:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T05:32:52","slug":"warning-sounded-over-any-moves-to-defund-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/warning-sounded-over-any-moves-to-defund-covid-19-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning sounded over any moves to defund Covid-19 vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A vaccinologist is warning that restricting access to the Covid-19 vaccine could send a message that it is no longer important.<\/p>\n<p>Covid-19 vaccines and boosters have always been provided free-of-charge &#8211; but that funding commitment is due to expire at the end of June next year.<\/p>\n<p>It is possible the Government could move to a more targeted approach like with flu vaccines &#8211; where only vulnerable populations get them for free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vaccinologist is warning that restricting access to the Covid-19 vaccine could send a message that it is no longer important.<\/p>\n<p>Covid-19 vaccines and boosters have always been provided free-of-charge &#8211; but that funding commitment is due to expire at the end of June next year.<\/p>\n<p>It is possible the Government could move to a more targeted approach like with flu vaccines &#8211; where only vulnerable populations get them for free.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/warning-sounded-over-any-moves-to-defund-covid-19-vaccine\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Warning sounded over any moves to defund Covid-19 vaccine<\/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":[811,673,18,521,14,320,731,15],"class_list":["post-4173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-aotearoa","tag-budget-cuts","tag-covid-19","tag-new-zealand","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-vaccination","tag-vaccine-equity","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173","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=4173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4174,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173\/revisions\/4174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}