{"id":313508,"date":"2025-12-13T07:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T07:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/313508\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T07:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T07:30:08","slug":"care-workers-put-off-flu-vaccine-by-social-media-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/313508\/","title":{"rendered":"Care workers put off flu vaccine &#8216;by social media myths&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Shepherd said workers were under pressure, but care homes were managing any outbreaks and trying to keep as many people away from hospitals as possible<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, she said this was being made difficult by staff absences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following news that two care homes had yet to roll-out their vaccination programmes to residents, she said this was the first she had heard of it and she wasn&#8217;t aware of the reasons why. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said all their providers were communicated with and linked with a pharmacy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m not sure how two were missed,&#8221; Ms Shepherd  said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Mitigations will be in place in terms of guidance in terms of face masks &#8211; if there are outbreaks the normal infection controls will kick in &#8211; so they will have taken a course of action to keep residents as safe as possible&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ms Shepherd said workers were under pressure, but care homes were managing any outbreaks and trying to keep&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-313508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}