Aotearoa New Zealand must learn how to vaccinate children most at risk of vaccine-preventable diseases first

ABSTRACT

Since we did choose this cheaper vaccine, how do you feel now that that we can see, since this choice was made, that the number of pneumococcal serotype 19A cases in young children, and the proportion of pneumococcal isolates that are penicillin-resistant, has increased? [...]of COVID-19, we now have a larger and more diverse vaccination workforce and many more strategies for delivering vaccines to those who want them and really need them, but for whom the current healthcare system is incapable of delivering. Dr Teuila Percival Paediatrician, Kidz First Children's Hospital & Community Health, Counties Manukau District;Honorary Associate Professor, The University of Auckland, New Zealand.