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Frances Ryan

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Guardian columnist and journalist. Author of Who Wants Normal? (2025) and Crippled (out now) E: [email protected]

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It’s so painful for people with severe chronic illness to be refused a vaccine by their GP - only to read healthy people are being given it.

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Anyone getting vaccinated helps everyone. Public health - by definition - is a collective effort. But healthy people getting the vaccine early *whilst* people with underlying health conditions are being refused, reinforces what we warned: the priority list is not working.

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Frances Ryan It reinforces 'value' applied to human life, trumping risk based analysis.

Persons with disabilities being further disabled. It's the same if not worse here in Ireland. Our Government didn't even ratify the optional protocol of UNCRPD.

@DrFrancesRyan It reinforces 'value' applied to human life, trumping risk based analysis. Persons with disabilities being further disabled. It's the same if not worse here in Ireland. Our Government didn't even ratify the optional protocol of UNCRPD.
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