{"id":20146,"date":"2020-11-10T18:37:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T23:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=20146"},"modified":"2020-11-10T18:37:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T23:37:21","slug":"doctors-and-pharmacies-on-vancouver-island-run-out-of-influenza-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/doctors-and-pharmacies-on-vancouver-island-run-out-of-influenza-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors and pharmacies on Vancouver Island run out of influenza vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British Columbians are taking the advice of public health officials to heart when it comes to getting a flu shot this year.\u00a0 So far, more than half a million people in BC have been vaccinated for influenza.\u00a0 The province is hoping to see two million people get the vaccine this year, up from 1.4 million last year.\u00a0 The provincial health officer says getting immunized will prevent extra stress on a health system that is already dealing with increasing hospitalizations due to COVID-19.\u00a0 However pharmacies and doctors offices in the Island Health Region have run out of the flu shot.\u00a0 Nevertheless, Dr. Bonnie Henry insists, there is no vaccine shortage in BC.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-20146-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/clip-HENRY-flu-more-shots.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/clip-HENRY-flu-more-shots.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/clip-HENRY-flu-more-shots.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>People living in the Island Health region can book an appointment for a flu vaccine at a public health clinic by going online at islandfluclinics.ca\u00a0 \u00a0The next appointments available are in early December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Columbians are taking the advice of public health officials to heart when it comes to getting a flu shot this year.\u00a0 So far, more than half a million people in BC have been vaccinated for influenza.\u00a0 The province is hoping to see two million people get the vaccine this year, up from 1.4 million&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":20161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,223],"tags":[1590,286,2997,2996,2995],"radio":[240],"origine":[280,265,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20146"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=20146"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=20146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}