{"id":4840,"date":"2025-12-28T18:13:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T18:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=4840"},"modified":"2025-12-28T18:13:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T18:13:52","slug":"warning-further-waves-of-flu-could-follow-as-deaths-double-in-just-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2025\/12\/28\/warning-further-waves-of-flu-could-follow-as-deaths-double-in-just-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning further waves of flu could follow as deaths double in just a week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Scotsman reports that Scotland\u2019s flu deaths doubled week-on-week, even as lab-confirmed cases showed a \u201creassuring\u201d decline. It cites official statistics indicating deaths can lag behind case trends, raising concern that additional waves may still follow. The piece frames the situation as part of a severe winter respiratory season requiring continued vigilance and health-system readiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: December 19, 2025. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/health\/warning-further-waves-of-flu-could-follow-as-deaths-double-in-week-5448608\">scotsman.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scotsman reports that Scotland\u2019s flu deaths doubled week-on-week, even as lab-confirmed cases showed a \u201creassuring\u201d decline. It cites official statistics indicating deaths can lag behind case trends, raising concern that additional waves may still follow. The piece frames the situation as part of a severe winter respiratory season requiring continued vigilance and health-system readiness. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":4843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-pandemics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840","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=4840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4845,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840\/revisions\/4845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}