{"id":5174,"date":"2024-03-28T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=5174"},"modified":"2024-03-28T06:03:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T10:03:10","slug":"do-you-need-a-spring-covid-19-vaccine-research-backs-extra-round-for-high-risk-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/do-you-need-a-spring-covid-19-vaccine-research-backs-extra-round-for-high-risk-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you need a spring COVID-19 vaccine? Research backs extra round for high-risk groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New guidelines suggest certain high-risk groups could benefit from having another dose of a COVID-19 vaccine this spring \u2014 and more frequent shots in general \u2014 while the broader population could be entering once-a-year territory, much like an annual flu shot.<\/p>\n<p>Medical experts told CBC News that falling behind on the latest shots can come with health risks, particularly for individuals who are older or immunocompromised.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven when the risk of infection starts to increase, the vaccines still do a really good job at decreasing risk of severe disease,\u201d said McMaster University researcher and immunologist Matthew Miller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New guidelines suggest certain high-risk groups could benefit from having another dose of a COVID-19 vaccine this spring \u2014 and more frequent shots in general \u2014 while the broader population could be entering once-a-year territory, much like an annual flu shot.<\/p>\n<p>Medical experts told CBC News that falling behind on the latest shots can come with health risks, particularly for individuals who are older or immunocompromised.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven when the risk of infection starts to increase, the vaccines still do a really good job at decreasing risk of severe disease,\u201d said McMaster University researcher and immunologist Matthew Miller.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/do-you-need-a-spring-covid-19-vaccine-research-backs-extra-round-for-high-risk-groups\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Do you need a spring COVID-19 vaccine? Research backs extra round for high-risk groups<\/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":[83,96,18,282,169,218,119,14,320,15],"class_list":["post-5174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-manitoba","tag-national-advisory-committee-on-immunization","tag-nova-scotia","tag-ontario","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-vaccination","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174","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=5174"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5177,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174\/revisions\/5177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}