She might be labelled vaccine-hesitant, but there was nothing hesitant about the way Jane avoided being immunised with the AstraZeneca vaccine. But in spite of extensive focus on vaccine refusal and hesitancy, the real story of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout in Ireland is the size of the uptake. Despite the ups and downs of the vaccine rollout and the fortunes of individual products, the tracker paints a mostly stable picture. In the earlier stages of vaccine rollout, double bookings occurred for older patients between GP surgeries and mass vaccination centres. Beset by the disruption caused by the cyber attack on its IT systems, the HSE is struggling to provide even basic data about the vaccine rollout.

Source: The Irish Times May 29, 2021 04:52 UTC