“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.
Listen back to his chat with our Eimear Ní Bhraonáin on KCLR Live here:
