Coronavirus: Doctors warn against making flu mistakes with the Covid-19 vaccine

A specialized agency for doctors classifies the lack of influenza vaccine for family doctors as a “complete disaster.”

On Wednesday, Kate Baddock, chairman of the New Zealand Medical Association, warned Congress’s epidemic response committee not to make the same mistake as the coronavirus vaccine.

Baddock told the Election Commission, which acts as a replacement for Congress during the lockdown, the issue of influenza vaccine supply was a “total blunder.”

“There is absolutely no doubt about that,” she said.

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Meanwhile, Prime Minister Jacinda Adern has failed to deploy the influenza vaccine, and Health Secretary Dr Ashley Bloomfield is “proactively” working on how New Zealand will access and distribute the Covid-19 vaccine. That was generally guaranteed.

On March 18, the government announced that nearly half a million additional vaccinations would be deployed two weeks ago to keep hospital beds vacant for the coronavirus.

The flu vaccination campaign was the worst hit in New Zealand, and earlier programs advertised prioritizing jabs for the most at risk New Zealanders.

However, it quickly became nationwide short and the GP was unable to keep up with demand.

National Woods spokesman Michael Woodhouse told Badgock that there was a fair amount of contact from the GP that he couldn’t get the vaccines they ordered and some were even cancelled.

He said the director of health had inferred that it was related to stockpiles.

Baddock said the distributors took the usual approach and distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. The group ordered early and realized that the vulnerability was first.

“Instead of releasing these [vaccines] She held them, she said.

She cited the Occupational Health Group as one explanation for providers that keep their healthcare providers where they need vaccines.

“Whatever the reason, it meant that the GP couldn’t get the vaccine,” she said.

In her practice she had no vaccine available for 10 days and had 4,000 vulnerable patients.

She said it was a “total disaster.”

She said the space limitations of the committee meant that doctors could not save large amounts of vaccine in their practice.

“We tend to hold well for only a few days and expect a stable supply every few days, so we can continue to supply to everyone.”

We were also able to evenly distribute it to all ongoing practices.

“In this situation, we need a ministry that manages the distribution so that practices that need it in large numbers early on can get it and have a stable supply. I don’t want to see what happened with the flu Get a coronavirus vaccine. “

On April 9, the government extended the time until the priority group had access to the influenza vaccine until April 27 and made the influenza vaccine publicly available.

At that time, health minister Julie Ann Genter said there was a problem that some providers were out of stock and the problem was resolved.

“Some providers ordered more vaccines that they could administer while others were in short supply,” she said.

“The Department of Health is more actively managing influenza vaccine strains to ensure that priority groups have access to them, and they are moving where they are most needed. There is no meaning being placed around use. “

She said sufficient numbers of vaccines were available, with an additional 300,000 influenza vaccines distributed in addition to the 900,000 vaccines already shipped to GPs and pharmacies.

“Every health care provider who received the order should now be getting more vaccine,” says Genter.

When asked about the influenza vaccine blunder at Covid-19’s daily briefing on Wednesday, Ardan said he had more problems than usual because he did not agree.

“I don’t agree with their assessment … we moved fast because we want to protect New Zealanders … and it’s not over.”

During the pandemic, the flu jabs were prioritized as much as the people listed as priorities.

The Secretary-General of Briefing Health said the Director General of Briefing Health had an influenza vaccine program to help the most vulnerable people first, and more than 60% of those over the age of 65 were vaccinated even during lockdown. Said.

“We also, as Ministers, have essentially intervened in the normal distribution of vaccines, allowing them to be under national control.”

Under normal circumstances, it was shipped to the person who ordered it, and he wanted to make sure it was managed to be evenly distributed throughout the country.

Bloomfield said he had intervened to control the distribution of influenza vaccines due to unusual circumstances.

Many were pre-ordered by private providers, and the ministry delayed that.

It can only carry 60 vaccines at a time, but there was a limit to allow multiple orders.

This is not only because the vaccine remains part of the country,

“We can rest assured that we are already actively working not only on what we do to distribute the Covid-19 vaccine, but on ensuring that New Zealand has access to it.” “

The ministry also said it had conducted research, ordering and regulatory aspects of the vaccine as it became available.

“We manage all aspects of the Covid-19 vaccine,” he said.