{"id":8357,"date":"2025-03-31T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=8357"},"modified":"2025-04-03T21:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T01:41:08","slug":"spring-covid-19-vaccine-doses-expected-for-some-vulnerable-albertans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/spring-covid-19-vaccine-doses-expected-for-some-vulnerable-albertans\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring COVID-19 vaccine doses expected for some vulnerable Albertans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Preparations are underway for a limited spring COVID-19 vaccination program in Alberta.<\/p>\n<p>Pharmacists say certain groups of high-risk Albertans will be eligible for a biannual dose of the KP.2 vaccine, starting April&nbsp;28.<\/p>\n<p>Eligible groups include seniors (aged 65 and older), all First Nations, M\u00e9tis and Inuit people six months of age and older, <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/open.alberta.ca\/dataset\/58d31634-61d9-469d-b95f-f714719b923e\/resource\/a8c142e4-865f-44ed-ad33-7df10677355c\/download\/hlth-aip-covid19-eligible-immunocompromising-conditions.pdf\">immunocompromised Albertans<\/a> six months and up, and adults living in care homes, according to <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/open.alberta.ca\/dataset\/58d31634-61d9-469d-b95f-f714719b923e\/resource\/3d3b9948-b4d6-4f3e-bf56-bc49fcab4c00\/download\/hlth-aip-covid19-vaccine-schedule.pdf\">Alberta\u2019s updated immunization policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preparations are underway for a limited spring COVID-19 vaccination program in Alberta.<\/p>\n<p>Pharmacists say certain groups of high-risk Albertans will be eligible for a biannual dose of the KP.2 vaccine, starting April&nbsp;28.<\/p>\n<p>Eligible groups include seniors (aged 65 and older), all First Nations, M\u00e9tis and Inuit people six months of age and older, <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/open.alberta.ca\/dataset\/58d31634-61d9-469d-b95f-f714719b923e\/resource\/a8c142e4-865f-44ed-ad33-7df10677355c\/download\/hlth-aip-covid19-eligible-immunocompromising-conditions.pdf\">immunocompromised Albertans<\/a> six months and up, and adults living in care homes, according to <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/open.alberta.ca\/dataset\/58d31634-61d9-469d-b95f-f714719b923e\/resource\/3d3b9948-b4d6-4f3e-bf56-bc49fcab4c00\/download\/hlth-aip-covid19-vaccine-schedule.pdf\">Alberta\u2019s updated immunization policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/spring-covid-19-vaccine-doses-expected-for-some-vulnerable-albertans\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spring COVID-19 vaccine doses expected for some vulnerable Albertans<\/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":[315,96,18,14,653,15],"class_list":["post-8357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alberta","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-vaccine-clinics","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8357","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=8357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8358,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8357\/revisions\/8358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}