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COVID-19: Kiwi academic writes to Chris Hipkins to ensure all body types catered for after she needed longer needle – Newshub
“They did not know that for fat people and especially super-fat people like me, they needed to be using a longer syringe to give…
“And if that were to happen you might have to get a suboptimal – less of response – to the vaccine.”
Vaccinators should always have longer needles on hand and they are trained to be discrete about going up a needle size.
Morphet said researchers had started…
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