Simplified Easy Read: Getting your COVID-19 vaccine
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Simplified Easy Read: Getting your COVID-19 vaccine HP7662 | 27 April 2021
Transcript of Simplified Easy Read: Getting your COVID-19 vaccine
Simplified Easy Read:
Getting your COVID-19 vaccine
HP7662 | 27 April 2021
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Please make sure you get to your vaccine appointment on time.
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You can bring a support person with you to your vaccine appointment.
Family Support worker New Zealand Sign or friend Language Interpreter
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You may be asked to wear a face covering during your vaccine appointment.
If you find it hard to wear a
face covering show your
face covering exemption card.
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The person doing the vaccine will ask you some questions about your health and any medications you take.
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You will be asked if you want the vaccine.
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The person giving you the vaccine will ask you to take off your jacket and roll up your sleeve.
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If you are feeling nervous about the injection you can do things like:
Talk to your support person
Listen to your music
Watch something on your phone or
i-Pad
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When you get your vaccine you will need to try and sit as still as you can.
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The person giving you the vaccine will:
Clean your arm with a cold wipe
Put a needle in your arm to give you your vaccine
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You may feel a pinch as the needle goes in your arm.
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The person giving you the vaccine will cover the place on your arm where the needle went in with:
Cotton wool Plaster or white tape
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You will need to wait for 20 minutes after you have the vaccine.
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This is to check you feel okay after you have your vaccine injection.
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Some people can feel unwell after they have a vaccine. Let your support person or the person who gave you the vaccine
know straight away if you start to feel unwell.
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You can leave after 20 minutes if you feel okay.
You will be told when it is okay for you to go.
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Before you go you will be given a vaccine card that has the date and time of your next vaccine appointment
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You will have the vaccine injection given to you 2 times.
The vaccine injections are given at least 3 weeks apart.
Having 2 vaccine injections gives you the best protection
from COVID-19.
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This information is from the Ministry of Health and has been
translated into Easy Read by the Make It Easy service of People
First New Zealand Inc. Ngā Tāngata Tuatahi.
The ideas in this document are not the ideas of People First
New Zealand Ngā Tāngata Tuatahi.
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