Regional Queensland doctors are calling for the return of mass vaccination hubs across the state, to blunt the impact of rising COVID-19 numbers.
He said the clinic now offered doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to patients during their usual appointments., he believed it was time to restart the mass vaccination clinics that dotted the state through the earlier years of the pandemic.
"But it is an impost on us because it takes away from our core business of looking after the general community and doing our chronic disease management strategies to keep people well." Dr Sarah Chalmers says there are solutions other than vaccination hubs that could be looked at for rural and remote communities.
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