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Subscriber only Two of the first frontline health workers to roll up their sleeves and get the COVID-19 vaccination have expressed relief after they were earlier involved in caring for positive pandemic cases at Lismore Base Hospital. But Northern NSW Local Health District chief executive Wayne Jones said the vaccination would not be mandatory, even for frontline health workers and clinicians in the intensive care unit. On Wednesday March 17, 2021, Intensive Care Nurse Rachel Benson and Infectious Diseases Registrar Dr David Stephenson received their first of two COVID-19 vaccinations. Ms Benson and Dr Stephenson both worked on the first COVID-19 positive patients admitted to Lismore Base Hospital in 2020.