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Confusion and fear as Australia's aged care workers wait to be vaccinated with winter looming


Confusion and fear as Australia’s aged care workers wait to be vaccinated with winter looming
Christopher Knaus
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Photograph: Ina Fassbender/AFP/Getty Images
The aged care sector has warned the government to drastically improve its vaccine rollout to aged care staff before winter, saying it is vital that workers be “given priority and vaccinated quickly”.
Advocates have also warned that people with a disability, including group home residents and those in regional areas, are still missing out on their Covid-19 vaccinations.
The health department announced on Thursday that almost 2.9m Australians have been vaccinated, including about 279,986 in aged and disability care. ....

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Confusion and fear as Australia's aged care workers wait to be vaccinated with winter looming | Health


But the department’s daily data releases do not give specific figures on the vaccination of either the aged care workforce or those in disability care, two areas where the rollout is lagging badly.
Both cohorts were included in the highest-priority group – phase 1a – but the rollout plan has since shifted repeatedly.
Initially, aged care workers were to receive their jab from an in-reach team, which visited their facility separately to aged care residents. The in-reach teams, in many cases, did not show up, and staff were left in limbo.
As recently as last month, the federal government still did not have a clear plan for vaccinating aged care workers under the age of 50. ....

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Coalition's mass vaccination clinics will put strain on healthcare workforce, industry groups say


Coalition’s mass vaccination clinics will put strain on healthcare workforce, industry groups say
Christopher Knaus
© Provided by The Guardian
Photograph: James Ross/AAP
The nurses’ union, the Queensland government, and the peak doctors’ body have warned the deployment of mass vaccination clinics will place strain on Australia’s immunisation workforce.
The federal government is considering whether to set up mass vaccination clinics, which have been deployed successfully in the United States and the UK, to help accelerate Australia’s much-criticised rollout.
Experts have broadly supported using mass vaccination clinics in tandem with general practitioners as an effective means of distribution. ....

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