Australian Premier Confident in Vaccine Despite a Death Hours After Jab
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has said that she has full confidence in the CCP virus vaccine rollout amid a probe into the death of an elderly woman three hours after receiving the Pfizer jab.
The 82-year-old woman lived at the Springwood Yurana Aged Care Facility in Queensland. She was administered the Pfizer vaccine at 10 a.m. on April 7, and emergency services were called at about 1.30 p.m. when she died.
Palaszczuk said the death was a tragedy, but she has full confidence in the vaccine rollout with 100,000 doses delivered in the state as of Thursday.
ATAGI have told the Prime Minister to pull back on the AstraZeneca vaccine for under 50s and use Pfizer, but who are they?
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AprApril 2021 at 12:37pm
Australia is now going with the Pfizer vaccine for under-50s based on the recommendation from ATAGI.
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On Thursday evening, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Health Secretary Brendan Murphy announced that Australia was diverging from its plan to use the AstraZeneca vaccine for the bulk of the population.
In doing so they said that Australians under 50 would no longer receive that vaccine, but the Pfizer one, less than 24 hours after the UK announced similar measures for citizens under 30 years of age.
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