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Australia’s COVID-19 vaccination rollout has hit yet another crossroads. Public confidence has wavered following the federal government’s announcement last week that the Pfizer vaccine was the preferred choice for people under age 50.
The advice was based on an extremely low risk of severe blood clots forming in younger recipients of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Many patients under 50 have since cancelled or been turned away from their vaccine appointments, according to reports.
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Australia’s COVID-19 vaccination rollout has hit yet another crossroads. Public confidence has wavered following the federal government’s announcement last week that the Pfizer vaccine was the preferred choice for people under age 50.
The advice was based on an extremely low risk of severe blood clots forming in younger recipients of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Many patients under 50 have since cancelled or been turned away from their vaccine appointments, according to reports.
Our Griffith University team is monitoring vaccine support levels among Australians. We’re doing this by analysing “big data” gleaned from social media platforms.
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Subscriber only A team of Rockhampton researchers has completed an international research project on COVID-19 outbreaks in residential aged care facilities. The research was published in the Lancet Group Open access journal EClinicalMedicine, among the world s oldest and best-known general medical journals. CQ Health s Public Health and Clinical Research director Professor Gulam Khandaker led the research team that went through more than 5000 documents. It identified 49 studies from 14 countries across four continents, sorting through data on 214,380 residents in 8502 care homes, with 25,567 confirmed cases of COVID-19. One of the researchers, a joint CQ Public Health Unit and CQUniversity PhD student Rashidul Hashan, was writing the paper from his hospital bed in Bangladesh while being treated for COVID-19.
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Man visited 7-Eleven on return to quarantine hotel Police will investigate a breach of hotel quarantine after a man returning from hospital in a taxi visited a convenience store.
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Subscriber only A COVID-19 quarantine breach has been referred to police for investigation after a man visited a convenience store on the taxi ride back to his hotel following treatment at a hospital emergency department. The Courier-Mail understands the man began his mandatory 14 days quarantine at the Voco Hotel, in Surfers Paradise, on Boxing Day, after flying in from Dubai. On January 3, an ambulance was called for a non-COVID-19 related medical issue while the man was still in hotel quarantine and he was taken to the Gold Coast University Hospital s emergency department for treatment.