NHS expands flu jab rollout to young children and pregnant women

Last winter, flu caused over 300,000 hospital bed days in England, nearly double the previous year, though vaccination prevented approximately 100,000 hospitalizations.

Each autumn, the NHS renews its quiet wager against winter — that a small act of prevention, multiplied across millions of lives, can hold back the tide of illness before it crests. This year, that wager reaches further than before: into nurseries where toddlers receive their first flu jabs, and into maternity wards where expectant mothers are offered protection that will travel with their unborn children into the world. Last winter's toll — more than 300,000 hospital bed days, nearly double the year before — is the arithmetic behind the expansion, a reminder that the distance between preventi

NHS expands flu jab rollout to young children and pregnant women

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