Editorial: Vaccine rollout at a snail s pace
10 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
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Whichever way you cut it, not enough New Zealanders have visited facilities such as this one at Manurewa Marae. Photo / Michael Craig
Whichever way you cut it, not enough New Zealanders have visited facilities such as this one at Manurewa Marae. Photo / Michael Craig
NZ Herald
EDITORIAL Spluttering reactions to Auckland District Health Board members getting vaccinated ahead of some frontline workers were understandable - many people are beginning to wonder whether they will ever get a jab, let alone join a queue.
Concern has been rising almost since the first batches of Pfizer vaccines landed in the second week of February. The first 60,000 doses actually arrived in Auckland from Belgium on a Singapore Airlines ahead of schedule. Since that momentous event, everything vaccine-related appears to have lagged.
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Aged care residents and workers are in the priority two category, and according to the Government s timetable are supposed to begin being vaccinated from March onward for Covid-19.
On Thursday the Aged Care Association told Checkpoint the Government needs to give some certainty around dates.
Allan Sargeant who runs three Auckland rest homes said that with winter approaching delays and bureaucracy are putting his vulnerable residents at risk. Absolutely shambolic. That s the one word that I could use. It s the only word that describes what is happening in the industry at the moment.
The chair of the National Māori Authority is calling for the chair of Auckland District Health Board to resign after he acknowledged he had preferential treatment when he was given a Covid-19 vaccination despite not being high on the priority list.
Auckland DHB chair Pat Snedden told
Checkpoint how he got a Covid-19 vaccination, along with some other board members, while many frontline workers are yet to get the vaccine. The opportunity arose because of the fact that we ve been very solidly through the frontline staff at ADHB, pretty much everybody who is in the patient-facing part of ADHB has been offered the vaccination, Snedden said.
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A number of Auckland DHB board members were vaccinated against Covid-19 last week, despite not being frontline health workers.
A Māori leader has called for Auckland District Health Board’s chairman to step down following revelations members of the board were vaccinated against Covid-19 ahead of some frontline workers.
Stuff revealed some members of the DHB s 11-person board had received their first Covid-19 vaccine following a board meeting last week. The chairman of the National Māori Authority, Matthew Tukaki, called for ADHB chairman Pat Snedden, who was among those who received a jab, to step down.
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