{"id":4755,"date":"2025-12-27T10:31:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T10:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=4755"},"modified":"2025-12-27T10:31:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T10:31:21","slug":"experts-push-back-on-uks-superflu-narrative-as-doctors-set-to-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2025\/12\/27\/experts-push-back-on-uks-superflu-narrative-as-doctors-set-to-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts push back on UK\u2019s \u2018superflu\u2019 narrative as doctors set to strike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Health experts are pushing back against sensationalist &#8220;superflu&#8221; headlines in the UK, clarifying that current influenza levels are typical for the winter season. While the media has raised alarms about a potential &#8220;twindemic&#8221; of flu and COVID-19, doctors emphasize that the strains circulating are not unusually severe. However, the NHS remains under significant pressure due to a massive backlog of patients and planned industrial action by junior doctors. Experts argue that the real crisis stems from chronic underfunding and staffing shortages rather than a particularly dangerous new virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: December 15, 2025. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/experts-push-back-on-uk-superflu-narrative-doctors-set-strike\/\">politico.eu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health experts are pushing back against sensationalist &#8220;superflu&#8221; headlines in the UK, clarifying that current influenza levels are typical for the winter season. While the media has raised alarms about a potential &#8220;twindemic&#8221; of flu and COVID-19, doctors emphasize that the strains circulating are not unusually severe. However, the NHS remains under significant pressure due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":4758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eroding-trust","category-health-pandemics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4759,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755\/revisions\/4759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}