01/27/21
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Covid-19: No vaccine postcode lottery in NI, say doctors
By Lesley-Anne McKeown
Doctors have insisted there is no postcode lottery when it comes to rolling out the coronavirus vaccines.
Northern Ireland s vaccination plan means all those over 80 should receive their first dose by the end of January.
More than 154,000 doses of a vaccine have now been administered, health officials said.
Dr Frances O Hagan, deputy chairwoman of NI s GP committee, said practices had their own rollout plans but she expected them to meet official targets. As soon as we get the vaccine, we will get it to you, she told BBC News NI. But please, please wait until we contact you.
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It was a devastating autumn for residents and staff of Oak Meadows Senior Living. Over a two-week period in November, 10 residents of the assisted-living complex in Oakdale died suddenly from COVID-19 and 31 residents and workers fell ill from the virus.
After witnessing the horror of people gasping for air and dying, administrator Deborah Veit expected front-line workers to leap at the opportunity to be inoculated against the deadly virus when vaccines finally arrived at the facility this week. Instead, nearly half the 75 staff members who care for residents at Oak Meadows are refusing the shots out of fear of side effects and distrust in the vaccine s efficacy. After all that we ve been through, I was blown away that staff wouldn t want [the vaccine], said Veit, executive director of Oak Meadows, which no longer has active coronavirus infections. There s too much fear of the unknown.