Vaccine rollout gets underway Continued from page 1 The devastating COVID-19 pandemic has killed more than 2.5 million people worldwide. Just over 900 deaths in Australia have been attributed to the disease. Dunkley MP Peta Murphy has also received her first vaccine dose. Ms Murphy was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2019, and said she took the vaccine “in order to show people with underlying health conditions, that make you either more vulnerable to catching COVID or make it harder for you to fight COVID off if you catch it, that it’s okay to get vaccinated.” “If you fall into category 1B, then the public health message is that if you’re worried about anything, talk to your GP, talk to your specialist. But like me, get the advice that it’s safe, get vaccinated,” she said. “It’s really a public health imperative.” Peninsula Health acting clinical director of emergency medicine Dr Jonathon Dowling also received the vaccine last week. “I’d like to reassure everyone that it’s safe, that it’s easy,” he said. “We want to have as many of our staff vaccinated as possible, particularly in the high risk settings so we can continue to care for people as they present. Many of my colleagues have seen firsthand the effects of COVID-19 on our patients as they have come through, so I think that’s driving a lot of the interest in the vaccine from our teams as we start taking those steps towards a post COVID world.” For more information on COVID-19 vaccines visit health.gov.au.
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