Judi Love has issued a warning to fans (Image: undefined)
ITV Loose Women’s Judi Love has issued a stark warning to viewers about the ‘super flu’ currently circulating after her son required emergency hospital treatment. The comedian featured on yesterday’s Loose Women panel, where the presenters addressed the latest influenza strain during the live broadcast.
Revealing her personal ordeal, Judi confessed: “I look tired because I am tired. I’ve been fighting. It’s been four weeks – first with my daughter. She got better again. Then sick again.”
She revealed how she relied on colleague Charlene White for support throughout the crisis, explaining: “You had to even collect her from the hospital. And then my son got really unwell. He ended up in hospital.
“It’s been back and forth. Massive shout-out to the ambulance and the NHS, they were amazing. There’s so much talk about different jabs and all of these speculations that go around. I think people just brush it over. They think, ‘I don’t need it,’ or it’s some conspiracy.
“It is very much an individual choice – look at your circumstances, your family history and make that decision for yourself. What I’ve seen over these past four weeks where I have been back and fourth with this virus or whatever it is, it’s actually more serious than I would have thought about four weeks ago,” reports the Mirror.
Judi Love’s children have been poorly (Image: undefined)
Judi revealed that she also has mates currently hospitalised with the virus. “To me, it was, ‘It’s just winter – rub a little rum on you, take a little Vicks, whatever.’ But actually seeing how I’ve been trying to manage it and hearing more and more people are sick, I’ve got friends in hospital, I’ve got friends that are sick.
“So for me, I’ve started acting how I used to act in Covid – wearing a mask when I need to.”
Judi is a mother to two children – a 20-year-old daughter and a 14-year-old son.
Judi Love spoke about her ordeal on Loose Women (Image: undefined)
This follows NHS England’s disclosure that Britain is confronting its most brutal flu epidemic in decades, with an average of 2,660 patients hospitalised with flu daily last week.
Professor Meghana Pandit, NHS national medical director, warned: “With record demand for A&E and ambulances and an impending resident doctors strike, this unprecedented wave of super flu is leaving the NHS facing a worst-case scenario for this time of year – with staff being pushed to the limit to keep providing the best possible care for patients.
“The numbers of patients in hospital with flu is extremely high for this time of year. NHS staff have pulled out all the stops to vaccinate more people than last year.
“With just a week left to ensure maximum immunity from flu for Christmas Day, I would urge anyone eligible for the vaccine to please book an appointment or visit a walk-in site as soon as possible. Vaccination is the best protection against getting potentially very ill and it also helps protect those around you.”
