{"id":122696,"date":"2021-05-18T20:23:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T03:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/commentary-giving-covid-survivors-just-one-dose-of-the-vaccine-could-help-end-the-pandemic-faster"},"modified":"2021-05-18T20:23:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T03:23:02","slug":"commentary-giving-covid-survivors-just-one-dose-of-the-vaccine-could-help-end-the-pandemic-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/commentary-giving-covid-survivors-just-one-dose-of-the-vaccine-could-help-end-the-pandemic-faster","title":{"rendered":"Commentary: Giving COVID survivors just one dose of the vaccine could help end the pandemic faster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/commentary-giving-covid-survivors-just-one-dose-of-the-vaccine-could-help-end-the-pandemic-faster.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Giving COVID survivors just one dose of the vaccine could help end the pandemic faster In South Korea, an analysis that included more than 500000 people age 60 and older found that the Pfizer vaccine was 89% effective in preventing infection just two weeks after the first shot. AstraZeneca\u2019s vaccine, which has not been authorized for emergency use in the U.S., was found to be 86% effective in that same time period. Again, that\u2019s after a single dose, and it\u2019s regardless of prior COVID history.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Commentary: Getting a second dose of Pfizer or Moderna\u2019s coronavirus vaccine might not be necessary for COVID survivors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giving COVID survivors just one dose of the vaccine could help end the pandemic faster In South Korea, an analysis that included more than 500000 people age 60 and older found that the Pfizer vaccine was 89% effective in preventing infection just two weeks after the first shot. AstraZeneca\u2019s vaccine, which has not been authorized [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}