Fish hooks in fast rollout of COVID vaccine

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Fish hooks in fast rollout of COVID vaccine

Barbara Docherty

Barbara Docherty

Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine - COVID-19 [image: bratislavskysamospravnykraj/WikiCommons]
Problems with the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine will have implications for uptake of the Pfizer-BioNTech in New Zealand [Image: bratislavskysamospravnykraj/WikiCommons]

Former practice nurse Barbara Docherty mulls over issues of non-general practice staff administering COVID-19 vaccines, side effects of that other vaccine, and the matter of informed consent

“It is only health professionals who can elicit and impart the necessary information and reduce the fear or ignorance associated with all the informat