CV19 needles for fat people
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From: Cat Pause, PhD
Dear Ministry of Health,
I am writing to enquire what size needles are currently being used to vaccinate fat and super fat people in New Zealand.
An earlier FOI response to Joanna McLeod (18.5.21) shared that the "supply of needle is the LDS 25G 25mm needle. There is also an option for a standard 21G 38mm needle for those with larger arms."
I have been alerted by a fat person in NZ that their clinic told them that there are no 38mm needles left in the country to use for vaccinations. Please respond to this claim.
Also, is the Shot Bro bus (and other vaccination buses) being stocked with 38mm needles prepared for vaccination of "larger arms" (to use your words)?
Yours faithfully,
Cat Pause
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Kia ora Cat,
Thank you for your request for official information received on 27
September 2021 for
"…what size needles are currently being used to vaccinate fat and super
fat people in New Zealand.
An earlier FOI response to Joanna McLeod (18.5.21) shared that the "supply
of needle is the LDS 25G 25mm needle. There is also an option for a
standard 21G 38mm needle for those with larger arms."
I have been alerted by a fat person in NZ that their clinic told them that
there are no 38mm needles left in the country to use for vaccinations.
Please respond to this claim.
Also, is the Shot Bro bus (and other vaccination buses) being stocked with
38mm needles prepared for vaccination of "larger arms" (to use your
words)?”
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Kia ora Cat,
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