26 Mar 2021

Elective surgery patients should get vaccine priority - study

From Morning Report, 6:47 am on 26 March 2021

A new international study argues that elective surgical patients should get priority for Covid-19 vaccines.

The research, involving 140,000 patients from 116 countries, suggests a preoperative vaccine is particularly important for the over-70s and those undergoing surgery for cancer.

Dr Deborah Wright from the University of Otago was project lead.

She spoke to Corin Dann.

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