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This article: https://www.pharmacymagazine.co.uk/clinical-briefing-pharmacy-flu-jabs-save-nhs-millions has some figures about the cost of flu (which vary wildly!) and used this report: https://ilcuk.org.uk/an-economic-analysis-of-flu-vaccination/ for most of them, that I can see anyway.0
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Toothsmith wrote: »That seems a very high figure donnac2558 :eek:
I can't find figures for last winter - but the winter 2017/18 was an unusually high death rate (Death rate is always higher in the winter) and that came in at just over 50,000 excess deaths over summer rates. This factored in the 'flu deaths too (as the vaccine that year was not that effective)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/30/excess-winter-deaths-in-england-and-wales-highest-since-1976
I think if there had been a million excess deaths last winter (20 x the year before) We'd have heard an awful lot more about it, even on top of Brexit news!
Up to week 15 of 2019 there were 1692 deaths attributable to influenza in the 2018/2019 season
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/807472/Surveillance_of_influenza_and_other_respiratory_viruses_in_the_UK_2018_to_2019-FINAL.pdf0 -
I read the 1 million deaths as being those caused by the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic rather than the usual seasonal influenzas.0
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I think a lot of people don’t really know what the flu is! they get a bad cold and say they have the flu. I have been having the flu jab every year since I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes aged 11. I know the flu can make me extremely ill or even kill me and I dread to think the cost to the nhs of the treatment I would need if I got it! A hell of a lot more than a flu jab. I guess that’s why it’s only free for those who are at risk of complications0
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