Health authorities have opened an investigation after a Melbourne man developed a ‘very rare’ blood clot condition several days after receiving the vaccine.
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Professor Michael Kidd AM – Australia’s Acting Chief Medical Officer – is a world expert on primary care. He is “the nation’s GP” as he says.
Professor Kidd is confident that the vaccines will fight COVID-19, a virus that has killed over 2.5 million people globally and crammed ICU beds across Europe, North and Latin America, Asia and Africa.
Optimism and confidence
“I am optimistic, what we know from these vaccines is that they protect people from developing serious illness and the risk of death from COVID-19,” Professor Kidd said.
Professor Kidd began his significant career in the 1980s in Melbourne then moved across Australia. In the 1990s, he was involved in the primary care response to HIV Aids.
Those âflying squadsâ of nurse immunisers were also going to disability care facilities this week, Professor Kidd said.
â[They are] providing essential protection to some of the most vulnerable people in Australia,â he said.
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As the United States marks a grim milestone with the death toll from the pandemic topping 500,000 people, Professor Kidd said the beginning of a national vaccine program was a very important day.
âToday is a real milestone in our collective response to tackle COVID-19 and bring things as rapidly under control as we can.â
In Victoria, Professor Rhonda Stuart was the first in the state to be vaccinated. The head of infection control at Monash Health, her team treated the first COVID-19 case confirmed here last year.