{"id":4955,"date":"2024-03-18T11:09:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T15:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4955"},"modified":"2024-03-18T12:15:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T16:15:09","slug":"older-p-e-i-residents-others-at-risk-urged-to-get-spring-covid-vaccine-booster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/older-p-e-i-residents-others-at-risk-urged-to-get-spring-covid-vaccine-booster\/","title":{"rendered":"Older P.E.I. residents, others at risk, urged to get spring COVID vaccine booster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Edward Islanders should be considering whether they need a COVID vaccine booster before the end of May, says Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Heather Morrison.<\/p>\n<p>In a news release Monday morning, Morrison said the National Advisory Committee on Immunization has released updated guidance on COVID-19 vaccine boosters for this spring.<\/p>\n<p>The booster may be offered at least three months after the last dose of COVID-19 vaccine or last infection. It is recommended for: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adults 65 years of age and older.<\/li>\n<li>Adult residents of long-term care homes.<\/li>\n<li>People six months of age and older who are moderately to severely immunocompromised.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Edward Islanders should be considering whether they need a COVID vaccine booster before the end of May, says Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Heather Morrison.<\/p>\n<p>In a news release Monday morning, Morrison said the National Advisory Committee on Immunization has released updated guidance on COVID-19 vaccine boosters for this spring.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/older-p-e-i-residents-others-at-risk-urged-to-get-spring-covid-vaccine-booster\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Older P.E.I. residents, others at risk, urged to get spring COVID vaccine booster<\/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":[96,18,348,349,14,320,15],"class_list":["post-4955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-pei","tag-prince-edward-island","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-vaccination","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955","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=4955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4957,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955\/revisions\/4957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}