GPs forced to rethink COVID-19 vaccine plans as 15-minute wait rules out some sites

GPs have been forced into an 11th-hour overhaul of plans to deliver COVID-19 vaccines after the MHRA ruled that all patients given the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine must be observed for 15 minutes.

by Nick Bostock

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