{"id":18765,"date":"2021-09-03T10:51:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T14:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18765"},"modified":"2021-09-03T10:51:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T14:51:58","slug":"the-debate-over-covid-19-vaccine-boosters-what-to-call-them-and-whether-theyre-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18765","title":{"rendered":"The debate over Covid-19 vaccine boosters, what to call them, and whether they\u2019re needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Helen Branswell for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p>U.S. health officials want you to get another shot of Covid-19 vaccine. But some experts in the vaccine world don\u2019t think we should be using the \u201cB\u201d word to describe that extra jab.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t call it a booster, they insist.\u00a0 Continue reading the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2021\/09\/02\/the-debate-over-covid-19-vaccine-boosters-what-to-call-them-and-whether-theyre-needed\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" 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>(By Helen Branswell for STAT) U.S. health officials want you to get another shot of Covid-19 vaccine. But some experts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pandemic","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18765","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=18765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18766,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18765\/revisions\/18766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}