{"id":20689,"date":"2022-12-28T08:33:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T13:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20689"},"modified":"2022-12-28T08:33:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T13:33:08","slug":"its-not-too-late-to-get-a-covid-booster-especially-for-older-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20689","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not too late to get a COVID booster \u2014 especially for older adults"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Selena Simmons-Duffin for NPR on December 28, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. has come a long way from two years ago when COVID-19 vaccines first became available and people were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2021\/02\/06\/964139633\/is-it-ever-ok-to-jump-ahead-in-the-vaccine-line\">cutting the line<\/a>\u00a0to get their shots. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2022\/12\/28\/1145339626\/its-not-too-late-to-get-a-covid-booster-especially-for-older-adults\">Here&#8230;<\/a>  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"54\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Selena Simmons-Duffin for NPR on December 28, 2022 The U.S. has come a long way from two years ago<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,12,52],"tags":[75,94,364],"class_list":["post-20689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-health-care-general","category-pandemic","tag-covid-19","tag-older-adults","tag-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20689","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20690,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20689\/revisions\/20690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}