{"id":207513,"date":"2021-12-10T10:58:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T15:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/?p=207513"},"modified":"2024-02-19T15:50:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T20:50:37","slug":"what-you-should-know-about-covid-19-and-the-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/2021\/12\/10\/what-you-should-know-about-covid-19-and-the-flu\/","title":{"rendered":"What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the Flu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people wonder if having COVID-19 offers any protection against influenza. According to\u00a0<a rel=\"noindex noopener noskim noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/coronavirus\/2021\/10\/can-i-get-a-flu-shot-if-i-had-covid-heres-what-to-know.html\" target=\"_blank\">nj.com<\/a>, you can \u2014 and should \u2014 get a flu shot even if you\u2019ve had COVID-19.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The antibodies produced against COVID are specific to the virus that causes COVID<\/p>\n<footer><cite>Dr. Adams<\/cite><\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Adams recommends waiting at least 10 days before getting the flu shot if you\u2019ve tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>In August, the CDC warned that individuals with COVID-19 should postpone their flu shot until they are symptom-free to protect clinicians and healthcare workers. The demand for flu shots is expected to be particularly high with over 190 million doses available, says\u00a0<a rel=\"noindex noskim\" href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/infectiousdisease\/covid19\/88192\">Medpage Today<\/a>. Experts say that people who are at high risk for COVID-19, including staff and residents in long-term care facilities and those with underlying medical conditions should definitely get their flu shots this year.<\/p>\n<span class=\"prpl-button\"><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/health\/health-news\/covid-flu-shot-cases\/2021\/12\/07\/id\/1047723\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the Full NewsMax Article<\/a><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Sandra Adams provided insight to NewsMax regarding the correlation between contracting covid and getting your flu shot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207778,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207513\/revisions\/207778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}