{"id":259,"date":"2020-09-25T20:43:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T20:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guardianpharmacy.net\/missouri\/?p=259"},"modified":"2020-09-25T20:43:34","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T20:43:34","slug":"guardian-pharmacy-prepares-for-upcoming-flu-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/missouri-st-louis\/2020\/09\/25\/guardian-pharmacy-prepares-for-upcoming-flu-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardian Pharmacy Prepares for Upcoming Flu Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The flu vaccine is more important than ever this year. Efforts to reduce the spread of COVID-19, including stay-at-home orders and social distancing guidance, have led to a reduction in routine preventive medical services, like immunizations.\u00a0Ensuring that individuals receive routine vaccinations during the COVID-19 pandemic is essential for protecting residents, staff and communities from preventable diseases and outbreaks. Routine vaccination also prevents illnesses that lead to additional complications, which further strain the healthcare system.<\/p>\n<p>Guardian Pharmacy of Missouri is providing onsite flu shot clinics at nursing and assisted living facilities \u00a0across Missouri this fall. Immunizers are gearing up to administer vaccines in a variety of clinical and alternative settings with a focus on safe vaccine administration during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Vaccinating staff and residents at long-term care communities against influenza is one of the best ways to protect our seniors.<\/p>\n<p>For answers to frequently asked questions about flu shots, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/prevent\/flushot.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/prevent\/flushot.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/guardianpharmacy.net\/missouri\/files\/2020\/09\/Guardian-Missouri-FLU-shot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-261\" src=\"http:\/\/guardianpharmacy.net\/missouri\/files\/2020\/09\/Guardian-Missouri-FLU-shot-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flu vaccine is more important than ever this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpautop","category-4","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/missouri-st-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/missouri-st-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/missouri-st-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/missouri-st-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/missouri-st-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/missouri-st-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/missouri-st-louis\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/missouri-st-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/missouri-st-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/missouri-st-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}