{"id":649804,"date":"2026-10-09T18:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T18:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/649804\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T18:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T18:00:11","slug":"hse-dublin-and-midlands-launches-winter-flu-and-covid-19-vaccination-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/649804\/","title":{"rendered":"HSE Dublin And Midlands Launches Winter Flu And Covid-19 Vaccination Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Friday, 9 October 2026 16:20\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ac7aa38f296783a7c0.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            People over 60 are advised to get both flu and COVID-19 vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>HSE Dublin and Midlands is launching its Winter Vaccination Programme.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone aged 60 and over, people with certain underlying medical conditions, or a weakened immune system are recommended to avail of both the flu and Covid-19 vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Ian Hosein is a Consultant Medical Microbiologist at the Midlands Regional Hospital in Tullamore.<\/p>\n<p>He says there&#8217;s many reasons why people should get their free vaccines:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, 9 October 2026 16:20 People over 60 are advised to get both flu and COVID-19 vaccines. HSE&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649805,"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-649804","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\/649804","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=649804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}