{"id":14677,"date":"2019-12-05T10:59:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T15:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14677"},"modified":"2019-12-05T10:59:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T15:59:59","slug":"what-is-a-high-dose-flu-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14677","title":{"rendered":"What is a high-dose flu shot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is a high-dose flu shot and do I need one?\u00a0 Fluzone High-Dose is an injectable flu vaccine approved by the FDA for people age 65 and older.\u00a0 Even though influenza strikes every age group, according to the CDC, up to 85 percent of flu deaths and 70 percent of flu-related hospitalizations occur in the over-65 age group.\u00a0 Read attached article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextavenue.org\/important-high-dose-flu-shot\/\">here\u2026<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/file0001786007208-700x525.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8944\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/file0001786007208-700x525-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/file0001786007208-700x525-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/file0001786007208-700x525.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a high-dose flu shot and do I need one?\u00a0 Fluzone High-Dose is an injectable flu vaccine approved by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14678,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14677\/revisions\/14678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}