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How does Australias vaccination efforts compare with other Asia-Pacific countries? Posted 2 Singapores vaccination rollout has been one of the most successful in the world. ( Print text only Cancel While Australia has fallen significantly short on its deadline to vaccinate 4 million people by the end of March, millions of people have already been vaccinated in other Asia-Pacific countries, including China, Indonesia and India. The number of vaccine doses administered per 100 people are highe...

Mass Covid vaccination clinics pointless in Australia without greater supply, doctors say Christopher Knaus © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: James Ross/EPA Experts and doctors have warned that new mass vaccination clinics will do little to aid Australia’s flawed vaccine rollout without greater supply certainty, and may even undermine the efforts of general practitioners. The idea has long been proposed as part of Australia’s vaccination rollout program, and is alrea...

Coalition’s mass vaccination clinics will put strain on healthcare workforce, industry groups say Christopher Knaus © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: James Ross/AAP The nurses’ union, the Queensland government, and the peak doctors’ body have warned the deployment of mass vaccination clinics will place strain on Australia’s immunisation workforce. The federal government is considering whether to set up mass vaccination clinics, which have been deployed successful...

Loading But the tally is not the full story. The countries ahead of Australia tend to have one of three factors helping them: they make more of their own vaccines (as in the European Union and the US), buy Chinese vaccines or get help from COVAX, the global program that gives priority to poorer nations. Brazil and Indonesia are using China’s Sinovac. Hungary is using Sinopharm. Chile is far ahead of Australia in the vaccine race, with a quarter of its people vaccinated, but it is relying o...

It has been an increasingly disorienting experience to watch our national reaction to the pandemic and how we treat COVID-19 risk so differently to risk in literally every other area not just of public health but of human endeavour.

Vaccine chart toppers: what Australia can learn from world’s best rollouts Melissa Davey © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Ronen Zvulun/Reuters Scott Morrison is upping the ante on planning for the next stage of Australia’s vaccine rollout. He’s announced an urgent meeting of the national cabinet on Monday to discuss changes amid delays and the decision not to recommend the AstraZeneca vaccine for under-50s. © Photograph: Ronen Zvulun/Reuters A teenager receives...

She said Canada went to extraordinary lengths to prioritise its First Nations populations, with everyone in all 31 fly-in-only remote Indigenous communities offered their first vaccination by 8 March. A handful of people flew by helicopter into these communities, delivering the vaccine in -35C temperatures. “But it was really the community leaders on the ground who made it all happen by having community coordinators address local people’s vaccine hesitancy and arranged rosters of comm...

Did Australia get it right on AstraZeneca? We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement Examine, a weekly science newsletter written by national science reporter Liam Mannix, is sent every Tuesday. The 10th instalment is below. You can sign up to receive it from The Agehere and from The Sydney Morning Heraldhere. The almost-total absence of criticism for Australia’s decision to preference Pfizer’s vaccin...

Australia’s vaccination program so far is “not a disaster” despite the “song and dance” being made about the prime minister’s promise to vaccinate four million people by the end of March, says infectious diseases expert Peter Collignon. “People are making a big song and dance about ‘oh look, we’re supposed to have four million doses of the vaccine - the AstraZeneca mainly I might say - before the end of march and that didn’t happen,” Professor Collignon said. “But the rea...

The paradox behind younger people’s response to AstraZeneca jab Save Share There is no hard science to explain why younger people appear more susceptible to the rare clotting syndrome associated with the AstraZeneca jab but some experts hypothesise it is because they have much stronger immune systems. Sounds paradoxical, but these clots are immune driven and if the vaccine stimulates a rogue immune response, they say this response is likely to be brisker in young people. But they are puzzl...