{"id":54945,"date":"2022-02-04T17:15:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T17:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/?p=54945"},"modified":"2022-02-04T17:15:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T17:15:20","slug":"care-workers-encouraged-to-take-up-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/care-workers-encouraged-to-take-up-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Care workers encouraged to take up vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Take up of the vaccine in Devon has been pretty good, especially among older age groups. But there are locations where take up could be better<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There has been particular encouragement to care workers to take up the vaccine – important for the protection it gives them personally from catching coronavirus and potentially becoming seriously unwell; but also because it reduces risk to the people they care for, and their families and friends. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Koren is the Managing Director of Mulholland Care Agency<\/a> in North Devon. She says:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I had the vaccinations to protect myself and those around me.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

“Working through the pandemic has been a really scary time for our care workers, especially in the early days. And we were all over the moon when the vaccinations arrived.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

“Having a vaccination is one of the most important things that a care worker can do right now – not only to protect themselves, but to protect their colleagues, their service users, their families and their friends.”\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Koren and other care workers have recorded their thoughts, to encourage other care workers to take up the vaccine.\u00a0Hear\u00a0Koren talk about why she chose to get vaccinated.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":54948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[293],"class_list":["post-54945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-social-care","tag-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"featured_image":{"ID":54948,"title":"care worker vaccination video","alt":"Image shows a cartoon hand holding a mobile phone. 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