{"id":18633,"date":"2021-08-10T10:39:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T14:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18633"},"modified":"2021-08-10T10:39:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T14:39:56","slug":"prevention-is-key-protect-yourself-with-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18633","title":{"rendered":"Prevention is key\u2014protect yourself with vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; www. medicare.gov\/blog)<\/p>\n<p>More than 79% of people 65 and over are fully vaccinated for COVID-19\u2014but are you defending yourself from other life-threatening illnesses, like pneumonia and the flu? Getting vaccinated is a simple, safe, and effective way to protect yourself.<\/p>\n<p>According to the CDC, \u201cvaccines greatly reduce the risk of infection by working with the body&#8217;s natural defenses to safely develop immunity to disease.\u201d They strengthen your immune system and train it to create antibodies, like it does when it\u2019s exposed to a disease.\u00a0 Continue reading the blog <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicare.gov\/blog\/prevention-is-key-protect-yourself-with-vaccines\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/the-medicare-blog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11503\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/the-medicare-blog-300x32.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/the-medicare-blog-300x32.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/the-medicare-blog.jpg 462w\" 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>(Source &#8211; www. medicare.gov\/blog) More than 79% of people 65 and over are fully vaccinated for COVID-19\u2014but are you defending<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18633","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=18633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18634,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18633\/revisions\/18634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}