Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Mar 2021
Don’t call yet: GPs inundated by demands for COVID-19 vaccine bookings
17 March 2021 - Doctors are begging Australians to wait three weeks before booking a COVID-19 vaccine appointment after the official launch of the federal government’s online portal led to clinics around the country being flooded with calls.
Royal Australian College of General Practitioners vice president Dr Bruce Willett, whose 20,000-patient clinic in outer Brisbane is receiving just 80 doses a week, said there would be ongoing issues of supply and demand.
