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Health Watch Australia and Hanover Street Medical Centre featured on Current Affair

Click the link to watch the video https://9now.nine.com.au/a-current-affair/coronavirus-how-australians-can-get-covid19-vaccine/be8da1ff-6193-4541-9394-f38c7b60b6a8 From today, six million Australians can book in for the COVID-19 jab from a GP after the government launched a new booking system on the Department of Health website.  But how does it work? Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt today revealed 338 clinics where people can book in to get the jab in NSW. In Victoria there are 285 clinics listed…

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Health Watch Australia’s Operations Manager, Susan Karakostas discussing the COVID-19 GP Rollout with Neil Mitchell on 3AW

The manager of a GP clinic says the phones “went crazy” when they revealed they would be offering the COVID-19 vaccine from Monday. Hanover Street Medical Centre sent a text message to patients over 70 on Monday, and had exhausted its first allocation of vaccines within an hour. See the full list of clinics offering the COVID-19 vaccine next week…

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COVID-19 pandemic drove flu to historic lows, and may have eliminated one virus type completely

As COVID-19 spread to hundreds of millions of people around the world, another potentially lethal disease — influenza — hardly reared its head at all. And seasonal flu rates globally have been so low for the past 18 months, it looks as though one flu virus has been stamped out altogether. Two studies — one published in Nature Reviews Microbiology in September and the other currently…

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