{"id":27386,"date":"2009-10-22T18:10:36","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T18:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/10\/22\/minnesota-flu-hotline-over-cap\/"},"modified":"2009-10-22T18:10:36","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T18:10:36","slug":"minnesota-flu-hotline-over-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/22\/minnesota-flu-hotline-over-cap\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Flu Hotline Over Capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/10\/minnesota_flu_information_numb.php\">Minnesota Flu Hotline that I had mentioned earlier<\/a> is a failure.  The state is calling it a &#8220;hiccup.&#8221;  Basically, no one can get through because a lot of people are calling in.  The local news is reporting that they have yet to get through themselves or to see anyone get through.<\/p>\n<p>Reports are that the state or its contractor were not expecting the volume of calls they are getting. I wonder why it did not occur to anyone that they would get a lot of calls<em> DURING A PANDEMIC!!!!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, not to throw gasoline on the fire or anything, but if you <em>ARE<\/em> sick and you <em>REALLY<\/em> do have the flu, and you <em>ACTUALLY<\/em> get through to the hotline (click link above to get the number) then maybe they&#8217;ll give you a script over the phone for tamiflu.  Or so they say.  Isn&#8217;t that interesting?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Flu Hotline that I had mentioned earlier is a failure. The state is calling it a &#8220;hiccup.&#8221; Basically, no one can get through because a lot of people are calling in. The local news is reporting that they have yet to get through themselves or to see anyone get through. Reports are that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/22\/minnesota-flu-hotline-over-cap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Minnesota Flu Hotline Over Capacity<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-77I","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}