It’s pretty good validation for the new technology.
On that note, in our country, where we seem to be keeping outbreaks under control, and we have little chance of opening up international borders in the near future, except for bubbles with other countries that also have things pretty well under control, can I pose the question - why should I be in a hurry to take a “good” vaccine if I have the option to wait for a great vaccine? And more generally, if we aren’t opening up in a hurry, wouldn’t it better serve our own country’s purposes to administer the most effective vaccine we can get our hands on? The cost of obtaining Pfizer and administering it to our country’s population must be tiny compared with the cost of controlling outbreaks, shutdowns, keeping borders closed etc. Also, the more effective the vaccine, the greater percentage of non-compliance we can accept and still achieve herd immunity.
If I had any say in our country’s choices, I’d be all in on Pfizer for Australians, and I’d be sending our locally produced AZ vaccines to countries where there will be less resistance to taking it and it can do the most good by slowing down the spread of this virus.
@bomber5au had a little yellow sticker and a piece of paper from Warrnambool. I really hope they’re recording all of this properly in a central repository and MyHealth. Not as if they haven’t had time to prepare.
Likely to be a year late.
Closed borders, outbreaks and snap lockdowns through 2021 & 2022.
What will be the full cost of this debacle?
On the economy and lives?
Federal health authorities are investigating the death of a 48-year-old diabetic New South Wales woman who developed blood clots after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.
The ABC has been told preliminary tests did not find a conclusive link to the vaccination.
But more tests are needed to confirm what role, if any, the vaccine had in her death.
It is not known which vaccine she received.
The AstraZeneca vaccine is no longer recommended for people under the age of 50, due the extremely small risk of blood clots.
I just looked at mine.
My record makes me look like an anti vaxxer.
I have had travel vax in the last decade but they gave me a small book to keep a record of at the time.
I’ve had two or three flu vaccines through my previous workplace but I don’t recall needing a Medicare card for it. I didn’t have it last year but am having it this year.
None of my vaccinations have been administered at my regular GP office. They’ve all been elsewhere.
Because it’s a travel bubble between only 2 countries and both have zero cases in the community it’s safe to do so.
Once other countries are added then yes you will most likely need to be vaccinated
India has reported a record 200,000 new daily COVID-19 cases, with the financial hub of Mumbai going into lockdown and hospitals treating coronavirus patients reporting severe shortages of beds and oxygen supplies.
The surge was the seventh record daily increase in the last eight days.
India is battling a massive second wave of infections, centred on the economically significant state of Maharashtra, home to Mumbai.
The western state accounts for about a quarter of the country’s total cases.
Figures released by the health ministry on Thursday showed 200,739 COVID-19 cases had been reported over the last 24 hours. Daily deaths stood at 1,038, taking the total to 173,123.
