âItâs your dutyâ: Plea for older Victorians to be vaccinated as Perth outbreak grows
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The state government is pleading with older Victorians to roll up their sleeves for an AstraZeneca vaccination, with a top official declaring it was the âdutyâ of those aged 70 and over to help avoid COVID-19 outbreaks and restrictions.
The stateâs COVID-19 logistics chief, Jeroen Weimar, said the state was delivering only a fraction of the vaccines it was capable of, despite six state-run mass vaccination hubs open to the public as of this week and a new community infection in Perth on Saturday.
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People struck down by an extremely rare clotting disorder that has been associated with the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine may take weeks to recover and more serious cases could require ongoing treatment.
With so few cases detected globally, experts say people with the emerging and sometimes fatal syndrome are being treated on a case-by-case basis.
A nurse holds a vial of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, manufactured by the Serum Institute of India and provided through the global COVAX initiative, in Machakos, Kenya.
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Infectious diseases expert Professor Paul Griffin, who sits on Australia’s AstraZeneca advisory board, said: “Every case is essentially being treated on its merits because we just don’t have enough cases for there to be a robust protocol that ha been replicated over and over,”
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