Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Feb 2021
A sixth of Australia’s vaccine supply at risk due to syringe shortage
18 February 2021 - Syringes designed to extract the maximum number of doses from Australia’s shipments of coronavirus vaccines will not be available when the national rollout begins on Monday.
Instead, federal Department of Health Secretary Brendan Murphy said low dead space syringes – which are designed to minimise waste in the injection process – were still on order amid a worldwide shortage, as NSW announced it was budgeting to lose up to a sixth of its supply in distribution.
