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Aged care COVID jab delay: Elderly now urged to see a GP – Byron Shire News
The COVID-19 vaccine rollout is so slow MPs are urging the elderly to try and get an appointment with their GP instead.
Exclusive: Politicians are advising 100,000 aged care residents still waiting for a COVID vaccine six weeks after the rollout began to go to their GP for the shot instead.
And some nursing home patients are refusing to have the vaccine because they are worried about side effects.
News Corp has been contacted by the relative of an elderly man in a private aged care facility who said his father still had no time frame on when he would get the jab.
In February, when the government announced that all…
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