{"id":148676,"date":"2025-11-19T17:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/148676\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T17:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:46:08","slug":"westmeath-pharmacist-urges-older-people-to-get-flu-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/148676\/","title":{"rendered":"Westmeath Pharmacist Urges Older People To Get Flu Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Tuesday, 18 November 2025 16:25\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/68ac74523f721.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            It comes as 800,000 people are set to miss out on the enhanced flu vaccine.\n        <\/p>\n<p>A pharmacist in Westmeath feels patients should be receiving the best possible vaccine to protect themselves from illnesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Around 800,000 older people are set to miss out on an enhanced flu vaccine this winter amid concerns over a new strain.<\/p>\n<p>HIQA\u2019s health technology assessment estimated the cost of the standard flu vaccine for those 65 or older at \u20ac3.8 million, and the high-dose vaccine at \u20ac18.9 million.<\/p>\n<p>However, John Gildea, Owner of Haven Pharmacy in Kinnegad and Killucan says the current vaccines are worth getting:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 18 November 2025 16:25 It comes as 800,000 people are set to miss out on the enhanced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3279,319,103,61,60,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,59],"class_list":["post-148676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-westmeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}