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Public urged to get flu vaccine as hospitalisation rates rise steeply (www.gov.uk)

submitted 1 week ago by Joker@sh.itjust.works to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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Flu positivity jumps to 17.1% as vaccine take-up rates lag behind levels needed to protect the NHS and levels of norovirus highest in a decade for the time of year.

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[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Flu vaccines are reasonably cheap, but COVID vaccines are still £100.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You guys pay for flu vaccines?

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

Non-boomers do, yeah.

[–] robinoberg@feddit.uk 0 points 1 week ago

Kind of too late to take the vaccine now though. It's not like it will work instantly. If you take it now, it'll really be useful for the next wave in the spring.