Prioritising the Pfizer vaccine for residents under 50 has wrought havoc on Australia’s attempt to vaccinate young people with disabilities living in care homes against Covid. The federal health department has acknowledged it is yet to finalise a new plan to vaccinate the priority group. Meanwhile, experts have spoken of “consternation” at a lack of consultation by federal health authorities on vaccinations for Australians with disabilities living outside of care homes. As of Saturday, about 262,000 vaccine doses had been administered across the aged care and disability care sectors. Both aged care and disability care residents fall under phase 1a of the rollout, but just 1,448 disability care residents had received their first dose by late April, with 25,000 yet to receive any dose.

Source: The Guardian May 10, 2021 08:25 UTC