Herainestold wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 2:48 am
shpalman wrote: ↑Tue Jun 15, 2021 7:22 pm
Chase Arnesen, 32, wanted the AstraZeneca vaccine
“I walked into the royal exhibition building hub last month before the boomers started to bother and decided I’d ask nicely if I could have one,” Arnesen said. “They asked why I was there and I admitted I wasn’t eligible but that I’d heard the AstraZeneca vaccines were woefully underused and asked if I could have one if they had sufficient supply.”
I still think it is sad that Oz abandoned its' made in Australia vax, but it seems to me Oz has lots of time as they have so successfully suppressed the virus. Why not just adhere to the schedule in an orderly manor and start sourcing variant boosters? By the time Oz opens up again, the virus will likely look very different.
We're still making the AZ vac in Australia, and it's being distributed to the over 50s (because the vaccine is magically safe for over 50s but dangerous for those aged 49 years and 364 days!) with the remainder of the >50 million doses being donated places where they don't have the infrastructure to store and distribute the Pfizer vaccine (PNG, pacific islands, etc).
But we had already ordered ~20 million Pfizer doses even before the AZ's issues were identified, which is fine for the majority of the population to have at least 1 dose, most 2 doses, and if we need to we'll source more from Pfizer (I *think* Moderna has also been approved), but we'll keep on with the suppression plan in the meantime*.
* Some state governments, federal pollies and business muppets think we should abandon the suppression plan and not lockdown when small outbreaks occur because it damages the economy. Fortunately Scotty from Marketing seems to be ignoring them for now, and listening to the experts, having been badly burned (pardon the pun) with not listening to experts regarding forestry management and the bushfires back in Jan 2020.
"My interest is in the future, because I'm going to spend the rest of my life there"