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COVID vaccine consent for aged-care residents: it’s ethically tricky, but there are ways to get it right – The Conversation AU
Aged-care residents will be among the first to receive the Pfizer vaccine when the rollout begins next week. For some, the process of consenting to the vaccine…

The much anticipated rollout of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine will begin in Australia on Monday.
The first groups to receive the jab will be quarantine and border workers, frontline health-care workers, aged-care and disability-care workers, and aged-care and disability-care residents.
For aged-care residents, their age, health and living situation makes them especially susceptible to becoming very sick or dying from COVID-19. So its right they are receiving priority access to a vaccine.
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