{"id":8538,"date":"2025-04-25T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=8538"},"modified":"2025-04-30T18:55:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T22:55:05","slug":"2-doses-of-covid-19-vaccine-recommended-for-yukoners-at-higher-risk-of-severe-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/2-doses-of-covid-19-vaccine-recommended-for-yukoners-at-higher-risk-of-severe-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"2 doses of COVID-19 vaccine recommended for Yukoners at higher risk of severe illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Yukon government is now recommending that Yukoners with higher risk of severe illness receive two COVID-19 vaccinations a year.<\/p>\n<p>In an April&nbsp;24 press release, YG said it is acting on the advice of the Yukon\u2019s chief medical officer of health, and the National Advisory Committee on Immunization.<\/p>\n<p>Those who are eligible for the twice-per-year vaccination encompass multiple categories: people aged 6&nbsp;months to 64 years who are moderately to severely immunocompromised due to an underlying condition or treatment; residents in long-term care homes and other congregate living settings for seniors; and adults 65&nbsp;years or older.<\/p>\n<p>The rationale is that these people are at greater risk of severe illness should they contract COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an April&nbsp;24 press release, YG said it is acting on the advice of the Yukon\u2019s chief medical officer of health, and the National Advisory Committee on Immunization.<\/p>\n<p>Those who are eligible for the twice-per-year vaccination encompass multiple categories: people aged 6&nbsp;months to 64 years who are moderately to severely immunocompromised due to an underlying condition or treatment; residents in long-term care homes and other congregate living settings for seniors; and adults 65&nbsp;years or older.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/2-doses-of-covid-19-vaccine-recommended-for-yukoners-at-higher-risk-of-severe-illness\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2 doses of COVID-19 vaccine recommended for Yukoners at higher risk of severe illness<\/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":[96,18,14,15,358],"class_list":["post-8538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-vaccines","tag-yukon","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8538","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=8538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8540,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8538\/revisions\/8540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}