{"id":19219,"date":"2021-12-06T07:26:11","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T12:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19219"},"modified":"2021-12-06T07:26:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T12:26:12","slug":"is-it-time-to-change-the-definition-of-fully-vaccinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19219","title":{"rendered":"Is It Time to Change the Definition of \u2018Fully Vaccinated\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Victoria Knight for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As more indoor venues require proof of vaccination for entrance and with winter \u2014 as well as omicron, a new covid variant \u2014 looming, scientists and public health officials are debating when it will be time to change the definition of \u201cfully vaccinated\u201d to include a booster shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s been more than six months since many Americans finished their vaccination course against covid; statistically, their immunity is waning. Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/fully-vaccinated-definition-boosters-ambiguity\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/fully-vaccinated-definition-boosters-ambiguity\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-899\" width=\"158\" height=\"82\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 158px) 100vw, 158px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><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 Victoria Knight for Kaiser Health News) As more indoor venues require proof of vaccination for entrance and with winter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19219","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=19219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19220,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19219\/revisions\/19220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}