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Trainee nurses boost Maori vax workforce 21 Jul 2021 15:00 PM More Related Stories Related Podcast Whitireia has put all its nursing students through immunisation training so they can help with the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out. The Porirua-based polytechnic offers Māori and Pacific bachelor of nursing degrees. Māori nursing tutor Verna Whitford says the training was done on campus by the Immunisation Advisory Centre. The students also require a certificate in cardiopulmonary resuscitation to vaccinate. Capital and Coast District Health Board removed the fee for CPR training for the stude...

A joint NZ and UK study into the risks posed by two COVID-19 vaccines is more good news for our vaccine rollout, scientists say.

Pfizer vaccine: Does it stop you getting COVID? Will it make you immune? Everything you need to know Newshub 12/02/2021 Dan Satherley © Video - Newshub; Images - Getty Jacinda Ardern confirms Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines will arrive in New Zealand mid-February. Their household contacts are next in line, followed by healthcare workers, essential workers and those in groups at risk of serious illness or death. The rest of us will get ours later in the year. If you've been following the development of vaccines against the coronavirus, you'll be aware there are several -...

David Goldman/AP A health care worker is injected with the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in Providence, Rhode Island, last month. Vaccines to cover New Zealand’s frontline workers are expected in the country in the first quarter of this year. EDITORIAL: That might have been a slow exhalation of breath you heard on Wednesday afternoon. Slow because it still carried a necessary note of caution, but with a justified sense of relief. The start of New Zealand’s Covid-19 vaccination programme is in sight. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern confirmed that regulatory agency MedSafe had cleared for...

A Covid-19 shadow is hovering over this weekend's Auckland Anniversary holiday. OPINION: The T word is fast fading from my news feed, to be replaced by the V word. While the T word sulks at Mar-a-Lago, the V word is à la mode, fly, trending, surface-of-the-sun hot hot hot. “Main thoughts on the vaccine,” wrote The Guardian’s best columnist Marina Hyde in December. “I will ingest this freedom juice any which way it comes. Jab? Yes. Two jabs? Yes, please.” Allow me to run a quick bath of warm fuzzies. Vaccination will protect me, yes – and also my family, my friends, my communit...