Very crook , his diary reads on February 4. No breath . It was a heart attack. From his property about 50km north of Dingo, the 69-year-old drove to his doctor in Rockhampton. I got gradually worse, Rob said. I went to my GP and soon as he gave me a test he said, You re bloody serious here; you better get off to hospital . I ve never been in an ambulance all my life. It s all new to me. Rob campdrafting. Rob was put in a trolley and taken to the Emergency Department at Rockhampton Base Hospital. He said he waited there for at least three hours, which gave him time to observe how the department operated.
“It was very small, like a mozzie bite.”
Those were the words of Gladstone and Banana Shire Director of Medical Services Dr Dilip Kumar after receiving the port city’s first AstraZeneca COVID vaccination on Wednesday morning.
Despite calls to pause the AstraZeneca rollout due to a few people experiencing blood clots, the emergency physician said he had complete confidence the vaccine was safe.
“It is very safe, the benefit far outweighs the risk from the vaccine and the risk is very minimal,” he said.
Dr Kumar said the Therapeutic Goods Administration used world leading clinical testing methods and everyone should be confident of the AstraZeneca vaccine’s efficacy.
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