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Doctors' assistants want to help with Covid vaccinations but GGD won't call back

Thousands of doctors' assistants who indicated they wanted to help with the Covid-19 vaccination campaign have not received a response from municipal health service GGD. Despite the GGD needing six thousand more people to help carry out the national vaccination process, assistants are rarely called to help because the health service prefers to hire people through temporary employment agencies, Parool …

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RIVM picks new leadership team for Covid vaccine program

Jaap van Delden is leaving his position as the Covid-19 vaccination program director at public health agency RIVM, the organization announced on Monday. Van Delden was recently at the receiving end of criticism for saying that the Netherlands would not move forward with the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, at a time when the country's leadership was also promoting the vaccination of …

A number of general physicians expressed their dissatisfaction over an interview in which RIVM Covid-19 vaccination program director Jaap van Delden said that millions of doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine destined for the Netherlands will likely be given away to other countries. Van Delden said that any of the AstraZeneca vaccine doses which arrive after mid-May would not be …

RIVM: Adults will have to take the Covid vaccine they’re given

Adults living in the Netherlands will not be able to choose which Covid-19 vaccine they receive as long as there is a shortage in the supply of vaccine doses. That could lead to missing targets and not getting enough adults vaccinated by the summer, said Jaap van Delden from the public health agency RIVM on Thursday. Van Delden was however …