Tag Archives: Vaccine

This afternoon.

Via RTÉ News:

The HSE has said it is currently offering booster doses to those aged 50 and over, those living in a nursing home or long-term care facility, healthcare workers, and those aged 16 to 49 with an underlying condition.

…If a person is 30 years or older they will receive a single dose of Pfizer or Moderna as their booster. If they are 29 years or younger, they will receive a single dose of Pfizer.

People can receive these vaccines even if they got an AstraZeneca or Janssen vaccine in their primary vaccination schedule.

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The HSE said those who are eligible for a booster do not to need to have received a text message before attending walk-in clinics.

“If you get a text, great, follow that text instruction“, Eileen Kelly, the Principal Clinical Lead at the vaccination centre in Swords, Dublin said.

“If you don’t get a text, you can still attend a walk-in.”

However, she is advising people to check the HSE website before travelling to clinics to ensure their eligibility.

“Currently, we’re over 50s,” she said. “Shortly we’ll be moving to the over 40s.”

HSE asks centres to facilitate boosters after 3 months (RTE)

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This morning.

Dublin Castle, Dublin 2.

Taoiseach Micheal Martin arrives for a cabinet meeting.

Via RTE News:

Micheál Martin said they need everyone on board with “all hands on deck ” in relation to the booster rollout, as the new Omicron variant is of “serious concern.”

Speaking on his way in Mr Martin said there is ongoing engagement to get as many GPs and more pharmacies involved in terms of administering vaccines and boosters over the coming days and weeks.

“That is critical in terms of the booster campaign,” he said.

He refused to speculate on possible restrictions and said there is ongoing engagement with public health officials.

All hands on deck needed for booster campaign – Martin (RTÉ)

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This morning.

Via Reuters:

Brazil’s health ministry said its website was hit on Friday by a hacker attack that took several systems down, including one with information about the national immunization program and another used to issue digital vaccination certificates.

The alleged hackers, calling themselves Lapsus$ Group” posted a message on the website saying that internal data had been copied and deleted. “Contact us if you want the data back,” it said, in an apparent ransomware attack.

The message, which included e-mail and Telegram contact info, had been removed by Friday afternoon, but the web page was still down, while user data in the ConectSUS app that provides Brazilians with vaccination certificates had disappeared.

The government put off for a week implementing new health requirements for travelers arriving in Brazil due to the attack.

Brazil health ministry website hit by hackers, vaccination data targeted (Reuters)

 

HSE CEO Paul Reid at the HSE operational update this afternoon

This afternoon.

Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin.

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Anti-covid response measures protest in Dublin city last month

This morning

The National Immunisation Advisory Committee has recommended that Covid-19 vaccinations be offered to children aged five to 11 years.

The advice has been given to the Government today and around 480,000 primary school children will now be offered a vaccine.

More as we get it

NIAC recommends Covid-19 vaccine for 5-11 year-olds (RTÉ)

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This morning.

Taoiseach, Micheál Martin told the Dail that last week 180,000 appointments for booster jabs were issued, but that just 93,000 people had attended.

Via RTÉ News:

The HSE said that in order to give people maximum opportunity to get a booster and to use all capacity in the programme, the HSE is using vaccination centres, GPs and pharmacies as vaccination channels.

It said that in comparison to the primary vaccination programme, it is taking longer to vaccinate people in some groups with the boosters.

It added that this is evident in lower attendance rates at both scheduled clinics, and at walk-in clinics.

“Even allowing for acknowledged issues with notification across the different vaccination systems, it is evident that it is taking longer for people to attend for the booster vaccination.,” the HSE said.

HSE urges people to attend for booster vaccines (RTÉ)

Graph: Ireland Vaccine Progress

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Adelaide, Australia.

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Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne’s return to pre-season training has ended abruptly for premiership star Jake Lever, who fainted on the track.

Lever collapsed on the far side of the ground at Casey, after a gruelling running drill.

The 25-year-old was immediately attended to by club medical staff, who huddled around him for about 20 minutes. Both coach Simon Goodwin and head of football Alan Richardson also showed concern for the defender’s wellbeing.

Jake Lever collapses in scary incident at Demons’ first pre-season training session (9News)

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This morning.

Via The Irish Times:

Mandatory Covid-19 vaccination of healthcare workers is being considered by public health officials as a response to high infection levels.

The issue was raised at a meeting of the National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet) earlier this month, which agreed to examine “relevant ethical, legal and practical issues before any action is considered”.

The Department of Health is to prepare an evidence paper on the topic to be discussed at a future meeting, according to minutes of Nphet’s meeting on November 11th.

Up to now, the practice has been to remove an unvaccinated healthcare worker from frontline duties…

Mandatory Covid-19 vaccination of healthcare workers considered by Nphet (Irish Times)

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Mad Money on CNBC.

Host Jim Cramer expressed frustration with the unvaxxed, saying:

“It’s time to admit we have to go to war against Covid. Require vaccinations universally. And have the military run it.

“If you don’t want to get vaccinated, you better be ready to prove your conscientious objector status in court, and even then you need to help in the war effort by staying home until we finally beat this thing.”

Jim Cramer’s investment playbook for the Covid omicron variant (CNBC)