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Epidemiologist: We need a different approach to get to the unvaccinated

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Sun, 17 Oct 2021, 3:51pm
(Photo / Sylvie Whinray)
(Photo / Sylvie Whinray)

Epidemiologist: We need a different approach to get to the unvaccinated

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Sun, 17 Oct 2021, 3:51pm

A suggestion more work needs to be done following the Super Saturday vaccination drive.

Just over 130,000 doses were administered nationwide.

It means at least 85 per cent of the eligible population has had their first dose.

But Auckland University epidemiologist Professor Rod Jackson told the Weekend Collective the vaccine push is far from over.

“500,000 eligible Kiwis who are not vaccinated, and that’s where we need to turn our energy to now. We need a different approach.”

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