{"id":82,"date":"2021-09-16T23:13:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T04:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/cjl010\/?p=82"},"modified":"2021-10-10T21:25:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T02:25:04","slug":"news-comment-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/cjl010\/2021\/09\/16\/news-comment-3\/","title":{"rendered":"News Comment #3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New Study of Covid Booster Shots Fans Debate Over Benefits<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/15\/health\/covid-booster-shot-data.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/15\/health\/covid-booster-shot-data.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/15\/health\/covid-booster-shot-data.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The New York Times published an article by&nbsp;Apoorva Mandavilli in their Health section describing a recent study performed by researchers in Israel that shows a booster of the vaccine is effective at preventing infections and severe illness in adults over 60 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not a fan of the article&#8217;s lede. It starts by saying, &#8220;Wading into an acrimonious debate over booster doses.&#8221; That isn&#8217;t necessary and leads should just be stating the news. It could&#8217;ve very easily just started with, &#8220;Researchers in Israel&#8230;&#8221; and nothing would have been lost. Also, I had to look up what &#8220;acrimonious&#8221; meant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I really don&#8217;t have a problem with the rest of the article. It is informative and lays out the facts well. I&#8217;m undecided on how I feel about booster shots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Study of Covid Booster Shots Fans Debate Over Benefitshttps:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/15\/health\/covid-booster-shot-data.html The New York Times published an article by&nbsp;Apoorva Mandavilli in their Health section describing a recent study performed by researchers in Israel that shows a booster of the vaccine is effective at preventing infections and severe illness in adults over 60 years old. I&#8217;m not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58502],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-posts","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/cjl010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/cjl010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/cjl010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/cjl010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/cjl010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/cjl010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/cjl010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/cjl010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/cjl010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/cjl010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}