{"id":55964,"date":"2024-01-22T18:28:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T18:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=55964"},"modified":"2024-01-22T18:28:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T18:28:30","slug":"warning-issued-as-covid-and-flu-sweep-uk-leaving-hospitals-struggling-to-cope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/01\/22\/warning-issued-as-covid-and-flu-sweep-uk-leaving-hospitals-struggling-to-cope\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning issued as Covid and flu sweep UK leaving hospitals struggling to cope"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36994\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/flu-230x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/flu-230x300.png 230w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/flu-360x469.png 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/flu.png 697w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">F<\/span>lu and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/life-style\/health\/1856580\/covid-uk-three-new-waves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Covid cases\u00a0<\/a>are putting an increased strain on a &#8220;fragile and pressured\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/life-style\/health\/1853568\/covid-doctor-urges-people-wear-masks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">emergency care system<\/a>&#8221; despite the number of hospital admissions being well below last year.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/warning-issued-as-covid-and-flu-sweep-uk-leaving-hospitals-struggling-to-cope\/ar-BB1h4eAu?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=LCTS&amp;cvid=4bb6762f86ee4c59bd7055ff8cff14a1&amp;ei=26\">|Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Flu and\u00a0Covid cases\u00a0are putting an increased strain on a &#8220;fragile and pressured\u00a0emergency care system&#8221; despite the number of hospital admissions being well&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-55964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/corona-covid-19.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55965,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55964\/revisions\/55965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}