Older Persons Advocacy Network (OPAN) chief executive Craig Gear said it was critical that residents be given enough time to give proper informed consent to accepting the vaccine.
“There’s naturally going to be teething problems about having everyone ready, having residents been given the information they needed,” he said. “That’s something that we’ve been very concerned about, to make sure that older people are getting the information that they need to make that decision and are supported in that decision.”
“I think we’ll see some of the teething problems this week around getting information in time and that sort of thing to be smoothed out as we go through.”