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Could the focus on the Covid vaccine overshadow the need for protection against other serious diseases - including flu and measles?
There is disquiet in Pasifika medical circles that the spotlight is so much on the pandemic vaccination schedule that many vulnerable people will not keep up with getting innoculated for other potentially deadly illness.
Lynn Freeman talks to Dr Monica Nua-George, clinical director at a Pacific health clinic in Christchurch - Etu Pasifika and Dr Hinamaha Lutui who is a co director at Alliance Health Plus and a GP at South Point family doctors based in Manukau.