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Doctors furious as WA Government deliberately drops COVID from new immunisation campaign

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John FlintThe West Australian

Doctors have ridiculed the WA Government’s new public health campaign to boost vaccination rates across a range of diseases for deliberately excluding the illness that is killing more West Australians than the others combined.

The $5.2 million Don’t Assume You’re Immune campaign launched by Roger Cook targets 15 diseases from chickenpox to whooping cough and the flu, but COVID is conspicuously not mentioned anywhere.

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