{"id":6828,"date":"2024-08-18T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=6828"},"modified":"2024-09-01T12:34:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T16:34:56","slug":"theres-been-a-summer-surge-in-covid-19-cases-should-i-get-a-booster-shot-now-or-wait-until-the-fall-for-the-new-updated-covid-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/theres-been-a-summer-surge-in-covid-19-cases-should-i-get-a-booster-shot-now-or-wait-until-the-fall-for-the-new-updated-covid-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s been a summer surge in COVID-19 cases. Should I get a booster shot now or wait until the fall for the new updated COVID vaccine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>QUESTION: I\u2019ve heard that there\u2019s been a summer surge in COVID-19 cases. Should I get a booster shot now or wait until the fall for the new updated COVID vaccine?<\/p>\n<p>ANSWER: It\u2019s true that there\u2019s been a recent rise in COVID levels in Canada, according to data from waste water collection sites across the country as of the end of July.<\/p>\n<p>Not so long ago, many medical experts assumed that COVID would eventually turn into a seasonal infection \u2013 similar to influenza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUESTION: I\u2019ve heard that there\u2019s been a summer surge in COVID-19 cases. Should I get a booster shot now or wait until the fall for the new updated COVID vaccine?<\/p>\n<p>ANSWER: It\u2019s true that there\u2019s been a recent rise in COVID levels in Canada, according to data from waste water collection sites across the country as of the end of July.<\/p>\n<p>Not so long ago, many medical experts assumed that COVID would eventually turn into a seasonal infection \u2013 similar to influenza.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/theres-been-a-summer-surge-in-covid-19-cases-should-i-get-a-booster-shot-now-or-wait-until-the-fall-for-the-new-updated-covid-vaccine\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">There\u2019s been a summer surge in COVID-19 cases. Should I get a booster shot now or wait until the fall for the new updated COVID 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":[96,18,77,287,14,15,47,12,354,355],"class_list":["post-6828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-influenza","tag-new-wave","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-vaccines","tag-variants","tag-wastewater","tag-wastewater-monitoring","tag-wastewater-surveillance-initiative","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6828","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=6828"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7039,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6828\/revisions\/7039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}