Vaccination rates lag for mental health and addiction patients

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Vaccination rates lag for mental health and addiction patients

Jonathan Chilton-Towle

Susanna Every-Palmer
Susanna Every-Palmer, from the University of Otago, Wellington, says pharmacies have helped an “enormous amount”

Researchers point to lower COVID-19 vaccination rates for those with mental health and addiction problems, but pharmacy has helped reduce the gap. Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports

Pharmacy vaccination has proved to be one of the few effective ways of getting COVID-19 shots into the arms of people with mental health and addiction