{"id":5081,"date":"2024-03-21T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T22:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=5081"},"modified":"2024-03-22T11:41:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T15:41:08","slug":"quebecers-over-80-are-urged-to-get-covid-vaccine-booster-this-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/quebecers-over-80-are-urged-to-get-covid-vaccine-booster-this-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebecers over 80 are urged to get COVID vaccine booster this spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quebec\u2019s immunization committee is recommending a booster dose of the monovalent XBB.1.5 COVID-19 vaccine this spring to seniors ages 80 and over as well as to people who are immunocompromised or on dialysis.<\/p>\n<p>The COVID-19 situation continues to evolve and certain parts of the population remain more vulnerable to the virus, the Institut national de sant\u00e9 publique du Qu\u00e9bec (INSPQ) said this week in <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"fr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inspq.qc.ca\/publications\/3471\" rel=\"noopener\">publishing its vaccination recommendations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A person vaccinated against COVID-19 is less likely to develop serious illness, but a gradual decrease in this protection is observed over a period of six months following vaccination. A booster dose is therefore necessary to maintain adequate protection, the INSPQ notes in its most recent opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quebec\u2019s immunization committee is recommending a booster dose of the monovalent XBB.1.5 COVID-19 vaccine this spring to seniors ages 80 and over as well as to people who are immunocompromised or on dialysis.<\/p>\n<p>The COVID-19 situation continues to evolve and certain parts of the population remain more vulnerable to the virus, the Institut national de sant\u00e9 publique du Qu\u00e9bec (INSPQ) said this week in <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"fr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inspq.qc.ca\/publications\/3471\" rel=\"noopener\">publishing its vaccination recommendations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A person vaccinated against COVID-19 is less likely to develop serious illness, but a gradual decrease in this protection is observed over a period of six months following vaccination. A booster dose is therefore necessary to maintain adequate protection, the INSPQ notes in its most recent opinion.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/quebecers-over-80-are-urged-to-get-covid-vaccine-booster-this-spring\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quebecers over 80 are urged to get COVID vaccine booster this spring<\/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":[96,18,973,785,70,14,186,15],"class_list":["post-5081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-inspq","tag-institut-national-de-sante-publique-du-quebec","tag-quebec","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-seniors","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081","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=5081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5083,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081\/revisions\/5083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}