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Flu
Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2025 10:22 pm
by Lifelongfan
watching the news record nos in hospital for flu. Do you need to go to hospital for flu? If elderly is the vaccination not working? Apparently nos increase after Xmas. Are people going to hospital after Xmas & NY so not to spoli it? Why weren't they in hospital on Xmas day? Do patients pick & choose when to go to hospital for flu?
Re: Flu
Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2025 10:28 pm
by Proposition Joe
Flu can kill people so doesn't seem unreasonable that some people might end up in hospital.
Re: Flu
Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2025 10:52 pm
by Hoover Attack
Lifelongfan wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 10:22 pm
watching the news record nos in hospital for flu. Do you need to go to hospital for flu? If elderly is the vaccination not working? Apparently nos increase after Xmas. Are people going to hospital after Xmas & NY so not to spoli it? Why weren't they in hospital on Xmas day? Do patients pick & choose when to go to hospital for flu?
Amazing, isn’t it? Almost as if there were lots of cosy gatherings of people on Xmas Day where the virus was able to spread, or something.
Re: Flu
Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2025 11:00 pm
by BoniO
Read that the uptake numbers for flu vaccination are way down on previous years. Maybe all the scaremongering has worked with the gullible.
Re: Flu
Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2025 1:12 am
by Max B Gold
Maybe it's just a new extension of Labour policy to kill the olds and they are flocking to the hospitals and infirmarys to save on heating costs. Or something.
Re: Flu
Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2025 6:55 am
by Orient_Man_And_Boy
Kill off we oldies then have another EU Membership vote?
Re: Flu
Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2025 8:25 am
by RedDwarf 1881
Orient_Man_And_Boy wrote: ↑Sat Jan 04, 2025 6:55 am
Kill off we oldies then have another EU Membership vote?
I’m reminded of an old saying “ To be old and wise you must first be young and stupid “.
Re: Flu
Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2025 9:10 am
by StillSpike
BoniO wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 11:00 pm
Read that the uptake numbers for flu vaccination are way down on previous years. Maybe all the scaremongering has worked with the gullible.
I've been called for flu jags the last 4 years, but this year, apparently, I don't qualify for it. The criteria must have changed, obviously. Perhaps that's got something to do with the lower uptake.
Re: Flu
Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2025 9:13 am
by The Reverend
I’ve had a nasty bug throughout the Christmas & New Year period. Possibly the worst I’ve ever felt with a cold/flu (not sure which it was but symptoms felt more like flu). I could easily see how the same illness could hospitalise somebody older so if doesn’t surprise me to see increase in visits early Jan.
Re: Flu
Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2025 10:03 am
by ChorizO
BoniO wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 11:00 pm
Read that the uptake numbers for flu vaccination are way down on previous years. Maybe all the scaremongering has worked with the gullible.
I blame that Eric Clapton.
Re: Flu
Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2025 10:23 am
by Proposition Joe
StillSpike wrote: ↑Sat Jan 04, 2025 9:10 am
BoniO wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 11:00 pm
Read that the uptake numbers for flu vaccination are way down on previous years. Maybe all the scaremongering has worked with the gullible.
I've been called for flu jags the last 4 years, but this year, apparently, I don't qualify for it. The criteria must have changed, obviously. Perhaps that's got something to do with the lower uptake.
But anyone can just go and get one?
Re: Flu
Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2025 11:15 am
by BIGRON
I've had every jab offered , loads of covid , shingles, flu , and Pneumonia , and I'm now getting over a bout of the flu
Re: Flu
Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2025 11:36 am
by EliotNes
BoniO wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 11:00 pm
Read that the uptake numbers for flu vaccination are way down on previous years. Maybe all the scaremongering has worked with the gullible.
On the Beeb website in the last few days it said the take-up of free jabs is 37% of those eligible. I've had mine and because she's younger than me and doesn't get a free one, we paid for flu and Covid jabs for Mrs NES at the local Boots.
Re: Flu
Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2025 11:36 am
by EliotNes
Proposition Joe wrote: ↑Sat Jan 04, 2025 10:23 am
But anyone can just go and get one?
yes, book them online at Boots.
Re: Flu
Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2025 2:26 pm
by StillSpike
EliotNes wrote: ↑Sat Jan 04, 2025 11:36 am
Proposition Joe wrote: ↑Sat Jan 04, 2025 10:23 am
But anyone can just go and get one?
yes, book them online at Boots.
I've always shied away from buying a vaccination, not for financial reasons but to allow those judged more in need to get one.
Perhaps I should rethink my position on this.
That said, my point still stands. If oldies aren't called for a jag, maybe that's why there's lower take-up.
