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The NSW Health Minister said the federal government should be given “time to improve” but made it clear NSW stood ready to assist.

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Infectious diseases expert Peter Collignon says it's "reasonable" for Australians to be hesitant about taking up the coronavirus vaccine, but said preliminary data shows the vaccine's efficacy rate is much higher than the flu jab. Mr Collignon said according to current data, there were no untoward side-effects other than allergies in less than 100,000 people in the Pfizer vaccine. "You've got to remember the influenza vaccine has 30-50 per cent efficacy. This has go...

Cautious Asian nations start deploying vaccine now proven elsewhere Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site. If youre not sure how to activate it, please refer to this site: https://www.enable-javascript.com/ Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam receives Chinas Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine in Hong Kong on Monday. | AFP-JIJI Bloomberg Feb 25, 2021 After sitting on the sidelines as the U.S. and Europe plowed headlong into vaccinating against COVID-19, the parts of the...

‘See a problem, measure it, fix it’: Push for surveillance to fight hospital infections We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement Infection control experts are calling for a national and transparent surveillance system to track and help prevent painful, debilitating and potentially life-threatening infections patients pick up in Australian hospitals. An estimated one in 10 people admitted to Australian ...

  A Labor MP with breast cancer, who has become one of the first immunocompromised Australians to receive the coronavirus vaccine, has told others with underlying health issues the jab is "safe". Peta Murphy, who found out she had metastatic breast cancer in 2019 - eight years after first going into remission - was given her first Pfizer dose at Canberra Hospital yesterday. "Im fine, my arm just feels like it does after the flu vaccine," she said. Ms Murphy has had radiation treatment ...

Infectious diseases expert Professor Peter Collignon says all the available data shows coronavirus vaccines are as safe as other vaccines, and the “good news” is they are more effective. It comes as Australia’s rollout of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine commences. “I think it’s quite reasonable for some people to have some reservations,” Professor Collignon told Sky News host Peta Credlin. “But the good news so far is that we’ve had vaccines put out in reasonably record time, and ...

Vaccine rollout underway, now bring more Aussies home: health experts Share Medical experts say the vaccine rollout should allow the number of stranded Australians to come home to be increased, but there are no arrangements in place to vaccinate the tens of thousands of citizens stuck overseas. Health Minister Greg Hunt said even with at-risk groups now being immunised to protect them from the virus, travellers will still need to undertake mandatory quarantining upon arrival in Australia. Healt...

Israeli researchers have found that having just one shot of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine may lead to lower viral loads, making it harder to transmit Covid-19 if someone becomes infected after the first dose. A health worker prepares an injection of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against the coronavirus at a vaccination centre in Dubai. Photo: AFP And its not the only positive research about the Pfizer jab to come out of Israel recently. A separate independent Israeli study, from the countrys la...

Advertisement The last time the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee – the panel of chief health officers that has steered the country through COVID-19 – met face-to-face was almost exactly a year ago in February 2020 to hammer out a plan for dealing with the looming pandemic. Soon, the states’ top doctors will meet in person again, most likely in Canberra, to detail the next phase: the planned six-month rollout of multiple COVID-19 vaccines and “what that will mean in terms...