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“No, I do not want under 40s to get AstraZeneca,” she said on Wednesday. “I don’t want an 18-year-old in Queensland dying from a clotting illness who, if they got COVID, probably wouldn’t die.”
“Few COVID deaths under-50”: Queensland Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young was criticised by the media and politicians for telling the truth.
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Fellow experts turned on her, as well as political figures and commentators. But Young, though sounding frazzled, stuck to her position.
Asked whether she was not undermining the vaccination program, she said on Thursday: “I’m giving my advice. I’m a doctor. I’ve been involved in Australia’s vaccination programme now for 16 years. People need to work out where they want to get advice from […] But my advice is very, very clear.”
JEANNETTE Young sounded at the end of her tether yesterday (July 1).
Queensland’s chief health officer attracted a storm of criticism, including the accusation she was fuelling the anti-vaxxer movement, after she challenged Scott Morrison’s opening the door for younger people to get the AstraZeneca vaccine.
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“No, I do not want under 40s to get AstraZeneca,” she said on Wednesday. “I don’t want an 18-year-old in Queensland dying from a clotting illness who, if they got covid, probably wouldn’t die.”
Fellow experts turned on her, as well as political figures and commentators. But Young, though sounding frazzled, stuck to her position.
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