{"id":23549,"date":"2020-10-07T16:02:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T07:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/07\/china-reports-shortages-of-flu-vaccine-after-rush-to-avoid-twindemic"},"modified":"2020-10-07T16:02:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T07:02:33","slug":"flu-vaccine-shortages-hit-china-after-rush-to-avoid-twindemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23549","title":{"rendered":"Flu vaccine shortages hit China after rush to avoid &#8216;twindemic&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long queues and inflated prices amid fears that flu could complicate anti-Covid effort<\/p>\n<p>A surge in demand for flu shots in Chinese cities has caused shortages, long lines and triple markups on vaccines by scalpers selling them online.<\/p>\n<p>Residents, afraid of the possibility of catching both the flu and Covid-19 \u2013 what some have called a \u201ctwindemic\u201d, have rushed to clinics since China began its flu vaccine campaign in September.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/07\/china-reports-shortages-of-flu-vaccine-after-rush-to-avoid-twindemic\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long queues and inflated prices amid fears that flu could complicate anti-Covid effortA surge in demand for flu shots in Chinese cities has caused shortages, long lines and triple markups on vaccines by scalpers selling them online.Residents, afraid of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1720,79,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-flu","category-society","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23550,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23549\/revisions\/23550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}