{"id":48632,"date":"2020-12-12T22:24:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T03:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=48632"},"modified":"2023-06-06T18:04:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:04:20","slug":"make-sure-to-get-both-doses-of-coronavirus-vaccine-physicians-urge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/make-sure-to-get-both-doses-of-coronavirus-vaccine-physicians-urge\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Sure To Get Both Doses of Coronavirus Vaccine, Physicians Urge"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_44534\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 250px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-44534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2020\/07\/CindyGay-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"CindyGay\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2020\/07\/CindyGay-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2020\/07\/CindyGay.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Cindy Gay, MD, MPH<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The first two coronavirus vaccines seeking\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/us-experts-convene-to-decide-whether-to-ok-pfizer-vaccine\/19423070\/\">emergency authorization from federal regulators<\/a> require two doses, and medical professionals worry that some people may be tempted to get only one dose. Experts say that could allow the virus to mutate and once again expose a danger to people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/coronavirus\/make-sure-to-get-both-doses-of-coronavirus-vaccine-physicians-urge\/19423939\/\">WRAL<\/a> interviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/directory\/cynthia-gay-md-mph\/\">Cindy Gay<\/a>, MD, associate professor in infectious diseases, who said she&#8217;s optimistic most people will take both doses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The people who step up and get the first injection are going to be people who are concerned and believe in the vaccine and would make the extra step to show up and get the second injection,&#8221; said Gay, who oversaw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/coronavirus\/unc-health-recruiting-500-volunteers-for-coronavirus-vaccine-trial\/19243245\/\">the UNC clinical trial for Moderna<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch or read the news report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/coronavirus\/make-sure-to-get-both-doses-of-coronavirus-vaccine-physicians-urge\/19423939\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first two coronavirus vaccines seeking\u00a0emergency authorization from federal regulators require two doses, and medical professionals worry that some people may be tempted to get only one dose. Experts say that could allow the virus to mutate and once again expose a danger to people. WRAL interviewed Cindy Gay, MD, associate professor in infectious diseases, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/make-sure-to-get-both-doses-of-coronavirus-vaccine-physicians-urge\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Make Sure To Get Both Doses of Coronavirus Vaccine, Physicians Urge\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69419,"featured_media":44534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[100,2],"tags":[629],"class_list":["post-48632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infectious-diseases","category-news","tag-629","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Make Sure To Get Both Doses of Coronavirus Vaccine, Physicians Urge | Department of Medicine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/make-sure-to-get-both-doses-of-coronavirus-vaccine-physicians-urge\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Make Sure To Get Both Doses of Coronavirus Vaccine, Physicians Urge | Department of Medicine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The first two coronavirus vaccines seeking\u00a0emergency authorization from federal regulators require two doses, and medical professionals worry that some people may be tempted to get only one dose. 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