Health Care workers

We know that the risk of getting COVID-19 is much higher for healthcare workers, and the risk of serious complications is much higher for older people or people with long-term illnesses. The HSE is offering this vaccine to reduce the illness and deaths being caused by COVID-19 in our communities.

 

Staff vaccinations have already begun at pace and we are planning for the majority of frontline healthcare workers in both acute and community settings to be vaccinated over the next few weeks.  

 

Long-term residential care facilities

Planning is underway to ensure all long-term residential care facilities receive the vaccine by the end of February 2021

 

Trusted sources for COVID Vaccine Information

It’s likely that our friends, family, and colleagues will have questions about the vaccine and may look to us, as HSE staff, for answers. It’s important that we direct people to a trusted information source like hse.ie/covid19vaccine to get accurate and expert information on:  

• what COVID-19 is

• what the COVID-19 vaccine is

• who will be offered it first, why and where to access it

• why it is important to get the vaccine

• who should not get it and who should delay getting it

• vaccine safety and its side effects

 

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