NT COVID vaccination target for remote communities 'isn't ideal', says Indigenous health expert

 Health experts say the Northern Territory's new target to vaccinate 80 per cent of remote residents aged five and older "isn't ideal" and the goalpost must be shifted closer to 100 per cent.

"To have an 80 per cent vaccine callout for [people] over five years, it isn't ideal," UNSW epidemiologist and Yawuru woman Kalinda Griffiths said.

Dr Griffiths pointed to research undertaken by James Cook University epidemiologist Emma McBryde.

Read More: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-10/health-experts-criticise-remote-nt-vaccination-target/100605370



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