Parents urged to vaccinate under-fives against flu amid surge in infections
news.sky.com
Flu hospitalisations in young children are nearly 20 times as high as last year, figures suggest. This week, 230 under-fives were hospitalised, compared to just 12 at the same time last year.

This week, 230 under-fives were hospitalised, compared to just 12 at the same time last year.

The NHS is writing to over 800,000 parents to encourage them to take their children to get the vaccine at a GP practice ahead of Christmas. Children under five are given a nasal spray, unless it is not medically appropriate.

Uptake in children aged two to three is behind last year's figures, with just under 35% of children having received their flu jab so far, down 9% on last year.

Seems like everything is going great in the western world with all the viruses right now. :yea:

But yeah, I'm sure it's just immunity debt causing this. :so-true:

  • fox [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Couldn't possibly be :covid-cool: causing immune deficiency even in mild cases. Do not mask, do not distance. Order must be maintained.

    • MF_BROOM [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      We gotta keep exposing the children to viruses as much as humanly possible.

      And while we're at it, why do we even have water treatment facilities? Let's make the kids drink untreated water and make their immune systems SUPER DUPER strong and get rid of all their immunity debt from the authoritarian lockdowns we had that one time in 2020.