direct to your inboxDena Murphy was nursing in an era when vaccines to protect against some potentially deadly illnesses were just not available.The great grandmother, from New Moston, says back then, it was “all too easy” to die from viral infections we barely think about today thanks to the jabs we all now take for granted.Dena, 92, says the Covid-19 vaccine is no different and she is urging people to get the jab after having it herself this week.“In my day we didn’t have vaccines and it was all too easy to die from illnesses that today we don’t even think about like measles and mumps - because we can have a vaccination.“This jab is no different,” she says.Dena was one of the first people to receive her initial dose to protect against.
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