{"id":7240,"date":"2024-10-04T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7240"},"modified":"2024-10-06T06:47:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T10:47:30","slug":"covid-19-boosters-start-rolling-out-to-some-canadians-who-can-get-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-19-boosters-start-rolling-out-to-some-canadians-who-can-get-them\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 boosters start rolling out to some Canadians. Who can get them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated COVID-19 vaccines are starting to roll out to some high-risk Canadians, but others will have to wait a little while longer before these new shots are offered to them.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Health Canada approved Pfizer and Moderna\u2019s latest COVID-19 vaccines targeting the most recent variants of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Both shots are approved for everyone aged six months and older.<\/p>\n<p>The new mRNA vaccines from both pharmaceutical companies target the KP.2 subvariant of Omicron that was dominating COVID-19 spread earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated COVID-19 vaccines are starting to roll out to some high-risk Canadians, but others will have to wait a little while longer before these new shots are offered to them.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Health Canada approved Pfizer and Moderna\u2019s latest COVID-19 vaccines targeting the most recent variants of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Both shots are approved for everyone aged six months and older.<\/p>\n<p>The new mRNA vaccines from both pharmaceutical companies target the KP.2 subvariant of Omicron that was dominating COVID-19 spread earlier this year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-19-boosters-start-rolling-out-to-some-canadians-who-can-get-them\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">COVID-19 boosters start rolling out to some Canadians. Who can get them?<\/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":[315,83,96,18,21,282,253,73,372,254,119,348,252,835,258,14,362,15,358],"class_list":["post-7240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alberta","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-health-canada","tag-manitoba","tag-moderna","tag-new-brunswick","tag-northwest-territories","tag-novavax","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-pfizer","tag-pfizer-biontech","tag-public-health-agency-of-canada","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-saskatchewan","tag-vaccines","tag-yukon","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7240","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=7240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7241,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7240\/revisions\/7241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}