{"id":5698,"date":"2024-05-07T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=5698"},"modified":"2024-08-03T00:09:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T04:09:46","slug":"high-risk-albertans-urged-to-get-another-vaccine-dose-as-covid-19-cases-ticking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/high-risk-albertans-urged-to-get-another-vaccine-dose-as-covid-19-cases-ticking-up\/","title":{"rendered":"High-risk Albertans urged to get another vaccine dose as COVID-19 cases ticking up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After trending downward for several months, COVID-19 is on the upswing in Alberta once again.<\/p>\n<p>The province\u2019s respiratory virus dashboard shows a number of key indicators, including case counts, hospitalization numbers and positivity rates, are ticking up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany jurisdictions in Canada have seen a slight bump in late April in the number of COVID cases, the positivity rate and also in their wastewater monitoring,\u201d said Dr. Dan Gregson, an infectious diseases specialist in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><i class=\"fa fa-camera\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>&nbsp;Image description: Electron microscope image of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles. Photo by: NIAID. Image is licensed under a <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" rel=\"license\">Creative Commons CC BY 2.0 DEED | Attribution 2.0 Generic license<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" rel=\"license\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-width: 0;height: 31px;width: 88px\" src=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/by.png\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After trending downward for several months, COVID-19 is on the upswing in Alberta once again.<\/p>\n<p>The province\u2019s respiratory virus dashboard shows a number of key indicators, including case counts, hospitalization numbers and positivity rates, are ticking up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany jurisdictions in Canada have seen a slight bump in late April in the number of COVID cases, the positivity rate and also in their wastewater monitoring,\u201d said Dr. Dan Gregson, an infectious diseases specialist in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/high-risk-albertans-urged-to-get-another-vaccine-dose-as-covid-19-cases-ticking-up\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">High-risk Albertans urged to get another vaccine dose as COVID-19 cases ticking up<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[315,96,18,78,14,230,15],"class_list":["post-5698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-alberta","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-hospitalizations","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-statistics","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5698","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=5698"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5704,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5698\/revisions\/5704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}