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Claudia Cockerell

Carrie Johnson says get the flu jab: here's how

Carrie Johnson has advised her Instagram followers to “get the bloody flu jab” after spending a week in hospital with flu and pneumonia. The wife of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson had a chest infection 18 days over Christmas and says she was struggling to breathe properly before she was admitted to hospital.

Johnson added that she regrets not getting the flu vaccine. “I really, really wish I had. It totally slipped my mind this year. No guarantee, but I very possibly wouldn’t have spent the last 3 weeks horribly, horribly ill had I got it,” she said.

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