{"id":363748,"date":"2010-02-25T15:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T20:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002591"},"modified":"2010-02-25T15:01:42","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T20:01:42","slug":"cdc-will-probably-advise-flu-shots-for-everyone-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/363748","title":{"rendered":"CDC Will Probably Advise Flu Shots For Everyone This Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/022510-002-shot-in-the-arm-thumb-300x220-37464.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>An advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/cold-and-flu\/news\/20100224\/cdc-panel-calls-for-flu-vaccine-for-all\">recommended that everyone get flu vaccinations from now on<\/a>, not just people in special higher risk groups. According to WebMD, &#8220;the CDC almost certainly will make universal flu vaccination official U.S. policy for this fall&#8217;s 2010-2011 flu season, as it consistently follows the advice of the panel of outside experts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Partly, the new approach is meant to bring in people who <i>should<\/i> get vaccinated each year but who don&#8217;t think they fall into the high-risk category. It&#8217;s also intended to reduce confusion among pretty much everyone as far as who&#8217;s supposed to get a shot and who isn&#8217;t. The Washington Post says that although 85% of the U.S. adult population is currently advised to get annual flu shots, only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/24\/AR2010022404361.html\">about 33% of us<\/a> actually do. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/cold-and-flu\/news\/20100224\/cdc-panel-calls-for-flu-vaccine-for-all\">&#8220;CDC Panel Calls for Flu Vaccine for All&#8221;<\/a> [WebMD]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control has recommended that everyone get flu vaccinations from now on, not just people in special higher risk groups. According to WebMD, &#8220;the CDC almost certainly will make universal flu vaccination official U.S. policy for this fall&#8217;s 2010-2011 flu season, as it consistently follows the advice of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}