General practitioners report disappointing turnout in corona vaccination | Inland

Rudu speaks of “changing signals”. In Zwolle, GPs reported a turnout of 50 to 60 percent last weekend and the turnout in Rotterdam was also very disappointing last week, but the LHV spokesperson also knows a neighborhood in The Hague where turnout was around 90 percent last weekend.

Sometimes even other patients are called to get rid of the vaccines. Currently, the AstraZeneca vaccine is intended for people between the ages of 60 and 65, but many doctors are now also using it to “poke up”, the spokesman said. For example, people between the ages of 65 and 70 are approached to get the vaccine.

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According to the spokesperson, GPs have noticed the consequences of the news that there is a small risk of serious thrombosis with the AstraZeneca vaccine. “Since Easter – after the second ‘injection stop’ – GP practices have been receiving massive calls about this. For example because patients doubt whether they should take the vaccine. It is understandable that people call their doctor, but it puts a lot of pressure on the practices, ”says Roedoe in the newspaper.

“But people decide for themselves what to do. All we can say is that the risk of getting serious corona is many times greater than the risk of the vaccine, ”said the spokesman.

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