People living with disabilities will often have chronic respiratory difficulties and many can’t mount a strong cough or easily fight off a chest infection. All Australian states have active rehabilitation medicine departments in their major hospitals that tend to the medical needs of those living with a disability. Departments of rehabilitation medicine are staffed by consultant specialist physicians, nurses and allied health professionals who are expert in treating and caring for those with disabilities. Most people living with disability know where these departments are or have been treated in them. Most of those living with disabilities are under 50 and will require the difficult to store and transport Pfizer vaccine.

Source: The Guardian May 07, 2021 20:00 UTC