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Mora Claramita is a Professor in Medical and Health Professions Education at Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia, and a general practitioner. Her research activity focuses on building more data and observations about the relationship between health providers and patients in Asia, as the cultural context can be very different from Western societies.
So, what is it we currently donât know? 1. The volume produced by local manufacturing This is a critical question. Australiaâs vaccine strategy is heavily dependant on local manufacturing of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Yet, we currently do not know how many doses CSL is manufacturing per day or per week. Morrison has previously said it was making about 900,000 per week. That figure is wrong, according to CSL. The acting chief medical officer, Prof Michael Kidd, was unable to answer the question on Monday during a press conference. âSo, I canât actually give you the figures. B...
Australia investigating whether blood clots in Victorian man linked to AstraZeneca vaccine Mostafa Rachwani and Michael McGowan © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian The Therapeutic Goods Administration has announced it is investigating a potential link between the AstraZeneca vaccine and a rare clotting disorder, after a 44-year-old man was admitted to hospital with blood clots after receiving the vaccine. On Friday Australia’s acting chief medical officer, Prof Michael Kidd, told reporters that health authorities were taking this case “very s...
Back in March 2020, with the first COVID-19 lockdown in place, and reports appearing of the way the virus was affecting people of colour in the USA and UK, I started to look at the research in Australia and the data in the government data collecting agencies about people our bureaucracies currently label CALD – Cultural and Linguistic Diverse Australians. Then all the evidence from the worst of our allies proved indicative – meat works, nursing homes, crowded towers of poor people of colour – we had them all. And still as the death tolls rose, borders were frozen and lockdowns were inte...