{"id":54706,"date":"2021-08-17T16:43:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T20:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=54706"},"modified":"2023-06-06T18:13:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:13:21","slug":"convincing-teens-to-get-their-shot-as-school-year-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/convincing-teens-to-get-their-shot-as-school-year-nears\/","title":{"rendered":"Convincing Teens to Get Their Shot As School Year Nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_54707\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/08\/David-Wohl-Wral.com-convincing-teens.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/08\/David-Wohl-Wral.com-convincing-teens-300x176.png\" alt=\"David-Wohl-Wral.com-convincing-teens\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/08\/David-Wohl-Wral.com-convincing-teens-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/08\/David-Wohl-Wral.com-convincing-teens-301x177.png 301w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/08\/David-Wohl-Wral.com-convincing-teens.png 529w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">David Wohl, MD (Credit: WRAL.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/coronavirus\/health-officials-want-to-convince-teens-to-get-their-shot-as-school-year-nears\/19827811\/\">WRAL.com<\/a> report says officials with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services are working to boost teen vaccination rates as students prepare to head back to the classroom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/directory\/david-wohl-md\/\">David Wohl<\/a>, MD, professor of medicine in infectious diseases said vaccination rates are lower than what they are for the adult population.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a crisis, so the problem is that it is not going to get any better anytime soon,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/coronavirus\/health-officials-want-to-convince-teens-to-get-their-shot-as-school-year-nears\/19827811\/\">Watch or read the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A WRAL.com report says officials with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services are working to boost teen vaccination rates as students prepare to head back to the classroom. David Wohl, MD, professor of medicine in infectious diseases said vaccination rates are lower than what they are for the adult population. \u201cThis is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/convincing-teens-to-get-their-shot-as-school-year-nears\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Convincing Teens to Get Their Shot As School Year Nears\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69419,"featured_media":54707,"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":[630],"class_list":["post-54706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infectious-diseases","category-news","tag-630","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Convincing Teens to Get Their Shot As School Year Nears | 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\/convincing-teens-to-get-their-shot-as-school-year-nears\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Convincing Teens to Get Their Shot As School Year Nears | Department of Medicine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A WRAL.com report says officials with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services are working to boost teen vaccination rates as students prepare to head back to the classroom. 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