{"id":625496,"date":"2025-12-11T03:54:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T03:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/625496\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T03:54:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T03:54:13","slug":"chemists-warn-of-vaccine-shortage-as-super-flu-sweeps-through-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/625496\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemists warn of vaccine shortage as super-flu sweeps through Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph-text\">She said that despite the &#8220;sharp rise&#8221;, the public should not delay getting jabbed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Dr Hannbeck told the Telegraph: &#8220;Community pharmacies have stock of both the adult and child flu vaccines<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">&#8220;Anybody who hasn&#8217;t yet had their own flu vaccine should prioritise popping into their local pharmacy to get protected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Experts have warned of a \u201csuper-flu\u201d descending on the health service in the run-up to Christmas, with an average of 1,717 patients being admitted to hospital every day during the last week of November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, which is responsible for four major hospitals in the city, declared a critical incident on Tuesday due to \u201cextreme pressures\u201d caused by the flu outbreak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">As a result, Brits have been warned to avoid the Trust&#8217;s A&amp;Es unless they are experiencing \u201clife-threatening conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She said that despite the &#8220;sharp rise&#8221;, the public should not delay getting jabbed. Dr Hannbeck told the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-625496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115698916684389523","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}