{"id":41591,"date":"2013-01-30T11:30:55","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T16:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=41591"},"modified":"2013-01-30T11:31:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T16:31:03","slug":"step-up-and-get-vaccinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=41591","title":{"rendered":"Step Up and Get Vaccinated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Healthy Communities<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>By Jennifer McGohan<a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=38163\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38163\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-38163\" alt=\"Jennifer McGohan\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Jennifer-McGohan1.jpg?resize=300%2C343\" width=\"300\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Jennifer-McGohan1.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Jennifer-McGohan1.jpg?resize=262%2C300&amp;ssl=1 262w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Jennifer-McGohan1.jpg?resize=131%2C150&amp;ssl=1 131w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Wampsville, NY \u2013 Jan. 2013) We are only half way through the flu season and it has already been a stronger flu season than we\u2019ve seen over the past few years.\u00a0 Those especially hard hit have been older adults. More than half of those hospitalized with the flu in New York state have been age 65 or older.<\/p>\n<p>Although the flu viruses affecting us this year are not \u201cnew\u201d ones, it is important for everyone, even healthy people, to get vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>No one wants to be \u201cTyphoid Mary\u201d at work, responsible for getting everyone else sick. No one wants to be around the person hacking around the break room and coffee pot. (Yeah, everyone noticed you did not cough into your elbow.) Even if you are healthy enough to fight the flu if you get it, you could pass it on to someone who cannot \u2013 like a baby, grandparent or someone who is already in poor health.<\/p>\n<p>Act now; it is not too late. A number of places still have flu vaccine: your doctor, your pharmacist or your local health department.<\/p>\n<p>Madison County Health Department offers the flu vaccine for children and adults at regular clinics. Make the decision to get the flu vaccination for you and your family; call 315.366.2848 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthymadisoncounty.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.healthymadisoncounty.org<\/a> to make an appointment today.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Jennifer McGohan is Public Health Educator for the Madison County Department of Health. She can be reached at madnews@m3pmedia.com.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Healthy Communities By Jennifer McGohan (Wampsville, NY \u2013 Jan. 2013) We are only half way through the flu season and it has already been a stronger flu season than we\u2019ve seen over the past few years.\u00a0 Those especially hard hit have been older adults. More than half of those hospitalized with the flu in New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[9964,13010,13126,21808],"class_list":["post-41591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jennifer-mcgohan","tag-madison-county-health-department","tag-madison-county-ny-news","tag-wampsville-ny-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-aOP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}