The Taoiseach is concerned at the rate of no show's for covid vaccines. COVID19Ireland
Taoiseach Micheal Martin has pleaded with the public to get their booster Covid vaccine as he revealed tens of thousands of people are not showing up for their appointment.
Mr Martin told the Dail that out of 208,000 booster vaccine appointments in the week commencing November 22, only 80,000 showed up to get the jab. “The same urgency doesn’t seem to be there in terms of availing the option to take the booster as was there when we offered the first dose and the second dose.”
“The booster vaccinations have been shown to produce very, very strong antibody responses and are likely to provide protection against disease, hospitalisation and death from most variants including Delta and Omicron at least.“We are seeing significant reduction in the incidence of the disease and it does work.”
It’s understood NIAC met to discuss the priority order of vaccines for this age group with children with underlying conditions or immunocompromised expected to be prioritised.
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