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“We were supposed to get, and contracted to get, 3.8 million AstraZeneca vaccines in these early weeks. We’ve got way less than that – 700,000,” he said. “We said many, many months ago, in fact about a month ago in particular, that we would hope to get in those early phases to around 80,000 a week. Now, we are getting up to those levels now as we conclude our third week.” Advertisement Opposition health spokesman Mark Butler said the government’s vaccination strategy was “fast becoming a complete mess”, with the country falling behind its goal of h...

Premium Content 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...

Professor Kristine Macartney, who's the Director of the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, said biotechnology company CSL's production of the AstraZeneca vaccine in Australia puts the country "in good shape".

Australia's safety monitoring system for COVID-19 vaccines is operating and weekly reports will be published from this Wednesday. The Therapeutic Goods...

Event description Hosted by Michael Rowland, this Q&A event will see our experts tackle your questions around the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Australia. About this Event What is mRNA? Why are there two vaccines on offer? What’s the difference? What does herd immunity mean? How long will the rollout take? Are the vaccines safe? As Australia begins to rollout the COVID-19 vaccine, we are faced with an abundance of new information, technical terminology, and vaccine myths and misinformation. It can quickly become confusing and overwhelming. The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection a...