“We have to be confident a vaccine won’t do any harm”, so says a local GP after the temporary suspension of the AstraZeneca jab.
30,000 people in Ireland won’t get their shot this week while the European Medicines Agency (EMA) investigates concerns about a possible link to blood clots.
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Kilkenny based Dr Tadhg Crowley has been telling KCLR that there’s also been delivery problems with the Pfizer vaccine over the weekend.
A number of practices across Carlow and Kilkenny were affected and some local 75 to 80 year olds won’t get their first dose as planned this week.
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Listen back to his chat with our Eimear Ní Bhraonáin on KCLR Live here:
