By Cam Lucadou-Wells
Monash Health’s head of infection control, Rhonda Stuart, was the first Victorian to get the Pfizer anti-Covid vaccine on Monday 22 February.
It represented an “exciting turning point” for Professor Stuart’s team, which treated the country’s first confirmed Covid case in January 2020.
“This will stop diseases, stop deaths and people needing to attend the hospital.”
“It’s been a busy week,” she said after 1000 health care staff were jabbed over the next five days.
But it was also a busy year, with Monash treating about 160 people with Covid-19.
The hub at Monash Medical Centre administered 1000 jabs to Prof Stuart and health care staff in the first week.