Doctor Simon Holliday of Health Hub Taree says doctors are being abused by people demanding to get the Pfizer vaccine.
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They are being slammed with people wanting Pfizer, while the Taree Respiratory Clinic, also run by Dr Holliday, is being inundated with people wanting COVID tests.
"A lot of health care workers would be really, really feeling beaten by this, and burnt out," Dr Holliday says.
"It's non stop dealing with fear and belligerence. People swing from one to the other.
"Everybody wants to be vaccinated. Everybody's angry because they want the Pfizer and we haven't got the Pfizer. They're angry and they're frightened and they've got all this misinformation.
"People are coming in irate and antagonistic because they've been told that this is quite likely a conspiracy, and quite likely a beat up.
"I had someone even today quite convinced that the COVID testing was inserting semiconductors from Bill Gates into the nose."
While the demand for vaccinations has gone up dramatically following the outbreak in Sydney, local GPs don't have the supplies - people are demanding Pfizer, while GPs only have AstraZeneca.
Dr Holliday predicted this back in May, when the Manning River Times first spoke to him about COVID vaccinations.
"I said before it was like the bushfires - you don't wait to clear your gutters out until all the embers are falling out of the sky. It's a bit like that now, everyone's thinking 'I really should have got around to doing something'. We've gone from complacent to panic."
"Everybody was saying 'I don't want to get clots'. They've all got this message that having having AstraZeneca is a risk that they might get the clot and die.
"And everywhere else in the world, they're saying, 'oh my God! I might get COVID and die, I need the vaccine'."
Dr Holliday says it is really important to make the point that AstraZeneca has a "ridiculously low" level of risk.
"In four million vaccinations in Australia we've had two deaths from a disease that's got a 15 per cent chance of putting anybody in hospital and two to three per cent of knocking them off.
"I know there's 60 that were diagnosed, but we're very good at treating these now. We've developed expertise."
Get tested immediately if you are symptomatic
Dr Holliday pushes home the need to be tested for COVID no matter how mild your symptoms are.
"If we don't have testing we'll have mystery cases and we'll have clusters appearing out of nowhere and then we'll be playing catch up football. The contact tracers will be struggling to keep us safe," he said.
The Taree Respiratory Clinic behind the Health Hub Taree in Butterworth Carpark is extending its COVID testing hours to also operate in the evening from 5pm to 8pm on weekdays and Saturday clinics will also be available, to cope with the demand.
Drive-through COVID testing is available at Manning Base Hospital, however Dr Holliday says there is currently a wait period of around four days for appointments. Manning Base Hospital is also extending the hours of their testing service.
Some private pathology labs in Taree are also providing testing.
At Forster, testing is available at Laverty Pathology, with a new drive-in clinic opening Wednesday June 30, at Forster Private Hospital.
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