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    SPREADING HOPE

    Mar 14, 2021 5 minutes
    by CLARE DE LORE

    Ask Dr Clair Mills if one Covid-19 vaccine is better than another and her response betrays the frustration of someone who would just love to get supplies of any of them.

    “Everyone wants Pfizer. And the Johnson & Johnson one, it requires only one jab. But we should be bloody grateful to scientists and manufacturers that we have all these vaccines. They’re all good.”

    For the past four months, on a “break” from her Paris base, Mills has been running a global operation for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF – Doctors Without Borders) from her bach near Matapouri, in Northland. In some ways, it was a holiday–hot, sunny days with twice-daily dips in the sea – but every evening, Mills turned her attention to some of the world’s Covid hotspots, some in Europe

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