Disclaimer: This article was published in 2021 and reflects the information available at that time.
  PDL recognises the extraordinary efforts that pharmacists have made to provide COVID-19 vaccines to more than one million patients. It is very pleasing to report only a very small proportion of those vaccinations have included an incident. Greater awareness of areas of risk within the vaccination process, as mentioned in this alert, can hopefully minimise risk to patients, pharmacists and pharmacy owners. The PDL Professional Officers are aware that many pharmacies are now offering two different vaccinations: Vaxzevria (AstraZeneca) and Spikevax (Moderna). Given there are varyin…

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