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I just felt a great sense of relief as a small step towards normality. Agree re the time gap. Too easy for people to drift away in between.
Honestly - would not have made any difference if we’d gone faster. Risk is so very minuscule.Those most at risk - front liners etc, have Pfizer, all good. About 3.5 million more of these are already on order. Not enough, sure, but will cover many more of those most at risk.
The next at risk - the seniors and older people with underlying medical conditions can safely get AZ, - all good.
Those at much lesser risk of getting seriously ill with COVID - under 50s, may have to wait a little longer OR, taking the risks as they are measured and in comparison with equivalent or greater medical and other risks they accept every day, they can opt for AZ.
The sky isn't falling, folks, nor is there some sinister gov'mint conspiracy to ... well, I don't know what the conspiracy could possibly be. Like most conspiracy theories, the rationale is not readily apparent.
As for waiting longer - there is little or no covid in the community in Australia AND if you think you are going to be able to safely travel overseas this year (other than a few bubble countries), I reckon you are dreaming, and not only from insurance and government (ours or theirs) travel restrictions points of view. Just be thankful that we are in one of the safest countries on earth.
Oh - just a thought. I wonder where those who were complaining that the roll-out was all too slow are at? Can you imagine the howls if the government had super rushed the roll-out (if there was suppy, which there hasn't been), gave everyone the AZ and then announced this? Wah! They didn't do enough research! Wah! Our health is at risk!
Improving definitely but you would have to think yesterday’s news would put a bit of a brake on that for a while.
Plenty of over 50s still to go but they might need to open it to 2A sooner than planned.....
Yes it will for a bit, until supply policy is reworked. Fortunately, we have time on our side as no-one is going anywhere (except NZ) for a long time while many of our favourite places are still zooming up the morbidity and mortality charts. Time will provide us a great spectator seat to vaccine effectiveness (cf efficacy) as it rolls out OS while we chip away at the problems affecting our rollout.
AZ, already had my first.
...but is it actually safe for 60+ with underlying medical conditions? I am just 60 and participating in a drug trial for metastatic triple negative breast cancer at present. Each of the immunotherapy drugs I am receiving includes a warming regarding platelet related thrombosis as a rare side effect. I am uncomfortable adding to this risk until more specific information is available. I won’t have to make that decision immediately though. While my GP rang to say they now have AZ available, the supervising oncologist wants me to be immunised during a specific period of of the 21 day treatment cycle. So it is today or 30 April. Which gives me plenty of time to see what is going on and make an informed decision.
20 million extra doses ordered, bringing total of Pfizer to 40 million. All this year.
Just a temporary halt - ABC is reporting it has resumed.
What's the rush? No-one is going anywhere for a long time while numbers look like this;
| Worldwide cases | 132,975,564 | Increase | 557,147 |
| Worldwide deaths | 2,886,571 | Increase | 14,133 |
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