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A leading Australian infectious diseases and vaccine expert has answered some of the growing questions about the country s vaccine rollout, including the topic of choosing between AstraZeneca and Pfizer. 9News talked with Associate Professor Paul Griffin, who has worked on COVID s frontline at the Mater Hospital in Brisbane. He has overseen more than 100 clinical trials of vaccine as a part of the Nucleus Network. READ MORE: 9News sat down with Associate Professor Paul Griffin, who has worked on COVID s frontline at the Mater Hospital in Brisbane. (Nine) With the number of blood clotting cases in Australia due to the COVID vaccine now in the double figures, how concerned should we be? ....
Health by MADURA MCCORMACK Premium Content Subscriber only Queensland s coronavirus jab drive is failing to keep pace with Victoria and New South Wales as new mass vaccination hubs in those states trigger a rapid ramp-up of the rollout. The Sunshine State is in danger of being left behind as analysis of vaccination data shows Victoria s new jab hubs, which opened last Monday, allowed the state to increase the number of daily jabs by 4000, with its week-on-week jab average jumping 35.6 per cent. It was in stark contrast to Queensland s modest 11.8 per cent rise in the same week. The newly-opened Sydney Olympic Park hub will have the potential to deliver 5000 COVID-19 jabs a day, more than double what all of Queensland s state-run clinics administer on an average day. ....
Do we need to vaccinate kids against COVID-19? Early results in from first clinical trials on children. Credit: Ariel Skelley/Getty Images When we think of vaccination, we generally think of children because that is when we usually get immunised. With COVID-19, it is a different story, because the push is to vaccinate adults before kids. “The need to vaccinate kids is fairly limited,” says Associate Professor Paul Griffin, an infectious diseases physician and microbiologist at The University of Queensland and director of Infectious Diseases at Mater Research. Unlike other respiratory viruses such as influenza, children have a minimal risk of developing severe COVID-19 infection, and deaths are rare. They also don’t seem to contribute to transmission significantly. ....