Health experts are concerned that slumping fourth-jab numbers in WA will lead to a spike in more severe cases like those that led to restrictions earlier in the pandemic.
abc.net.au/news/fourth-covid-vaccine-booster-rates-lagging-in-western-australia/101838870Federal data reveals Western Australia has the country's second-lowest rate of fourth-dose vaccinations for COVID-19, prompting calls for better public education to stop a spike in more severe cases.The state's health experts are calling for more public education to avoid an increase in more severe casesDepartment of Health and Aged Care statistics this month showed just 38.
"There is good evidence that the more severe, and the more … times someone gets COVID, the more chance of organ damage and long COVID," he said.Mr Duncan-Smith said more state government education programs that encouraged people toMark Duncan-Smith says WA residents need to maintain their COVID-19 vaccine schedule.
"People who received booster doses had a lower rate of infection and severe disease compared to people who did not have a booster."
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