Health
A sixth of Australia’s vaccine supply at risk due to syringe shortage – Sydney Morning Herald
Syringes designed to extract the maximum amount of doses from Australia’s shipments of coronavirus vaccines will not yet be available when the national rollout…
Low dead space syringes are designed to waste less fluid by ensuring the shape of the plunger beneath the metal needle fits into the neck of the syringe, leaving less fluid behind when the vaccine is administered.
On Wednesday, NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant said her state was basing rollout estimates on extracting five doses from each vial of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, not the labelled six, because standard syringes were being used.
A pharmacist fills a dead volume syringe with the Pfizer-BioNTech…
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