The COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Australia has begun

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7 is reporting bigger than usual numbers turned out to get vaccinated this weekend in Melbourne:
 
mviy said:
7 is reporting bigger than usual numbers turned out to get vaccinated this weekend in Melbourne:
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There seemed to be more people around the Convention/Exhibition Centre today than I've noticed in recent weeks. Good sign (and completely unscientific, of course)
 
burmans said:
Supply is not the only problem though!
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Realistically, it is. If people don't want to get vaccinated then good luck to them. The hospitals won't be overrun so they'll receive appropriate treatment, and their odds of survival are exceptionally high. For some reason, certain folk may prefer that avenue, but it's not our problem.
 
The increased Pfizer supply starts to arrive tomorrow. So there'll be a lag before it gets injected into people, but it will start to have an impact later this month.
 
N860CR said:
Realistically, it is. If people don't want to get vaccinated then good luck to them. The hospitals won't be overrun so they'll receive appropriate treatment, and their odds of survival are exceptionally high. For some reason, certain folk may prefer that avenue, but it's not our problem.
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It will remain a problem while politicians and their advisers set what some may think are unreasonably high thresholds for vaccination.
 
HappyFlyerFamily said:
I think I heard the Canadian government did a survey or something to actually confirm the number of hard refusals. My impression is that hard refusals doesn't include covid vaccine hesitant people.
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The survey was conducted in March/April and it was adults 18+. It returned 10% hard no, and a further 5% "probably not". The probably nots are being treated as "noes". 75% said "yes". If the remaining 10% were hesitant, they're either losing that hesitancy, or the 12 to 18s have skewed the vaccination rates, given D1 is approaching 80%.

Another feature of the Canadian programme is inconsistency between the provinces and territories. While most of the provinces and territories are ahead of the national average, Ontario (the most populous province with 14.5m of Canada's 39.5m people), Alberta, Saskatchewan and Nunavut (39,000 people) are lagging the national averages. This could lead to UK and US style outbreaks in the unvaccinated populations in those places. We're now seeing calls from health authorities for 90% vaccination coverage to guard against that prospect. I doubt that level will be reached.
 
Chalkie said:
The survey was conducted in March/April and it was adults 18+. It returned 10% hard no, and a further 5% "probably not". The probably nots are being treated as "noes". 75% said "yes". If the remaining 10% were hesitant, they're either losing that hesitancy, or the 12 to 18s have skewed the vaccination rates, given D1 is approaching 80%.

Another feature of the Canadian programme is inconsistency between the provinces and territories. While most of the provinces and territories are ahead of the national average, Ontario (the most populous province with 14.5m of Canada's 39.5m people), Alberta, Saskatchewan and Nunavut (39,000 people) are lagging the national averages. This could lead to UK and US style outbreaks in the unvaccinated populations in those places. We're now seeing calls from health authorities for 90% vaccination coverage to guard against that prospect. I doubt that level will be reached.
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It won’t but I’m happy if the people who won’t (not can’t) pay a extra 2% Medicare surcharge to cover Health costs. Also no access to Centrelink payments, no tax concessions, no childcare - and a range of other disincentives need to be lined up. Plus more incentives for the early adopters. They need to be doing this now.
 
mviy said:
The increased Pfizer supply started arriving overnight.
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Yes, was always slater for that timeline. Perth got theirs last night and both Sydney and Melbourne today. Hopefully the batch testing and distribution now is done in a timely manner
 
The new Lake Macquarie Vaccination Centre (at Belmont south of Newcastle) commenced today. The live new indicated that today was mainly for emergency and healthworkers, though some from the general public were being done including walk-ins.

John Frewen also (live interview) confirmed that more GPs and Pharmacists also will come on board this week.

With more supply about to start, more and more vaccinators (or distribution nodes as Frewen called each new facility) are being added.

www.abc.net.au

Belmont venue busy as latest NSW mass vaccination hub opens at former Bunnings

The vaccine roll-out is set to pick up in the NSW Hunter region with the opening today of a giant vaccination hub just south of Newcastle.
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au
 
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lovetravellingoz said:
The new Lake Macquarie Vaccination Centre (at Belmont south of Newcastle) commenced today. The live new indicated that today was mainly for emergency and healthworkers, though some from the general public were being done including walk-ins.

John Frewen also (live interview) confirmed that more GPs and Pharmacists also will come on board this week.

With more supply about to start, more and more vaccinators (or distribution nodes as Frewen called each new facility) are being added.

www.abc.net.au

Belmont venue busy as latest NSW mass vaccination hub opens at former Bunnings

The vaccine roll-out is set to pick up in the NSW Hunter region with the opening today of a giant vaccination hub just south of Newcastle.
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au
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I was horrified to see people wearing masks under their nose and with valves on them… in a vax hub!
 
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jakeseven7 said:
I was horrified to see people wearing masks under their nose and with valves on them… in a vax hub!
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I think when I see people wearing them under their nose they may as well not be wearing the masks at all. Where there isn't an outbreak vaccination hubs make a lot of sense. However during an outbreak, especially if people don't follow the rules of wearing a mask properly and social distancing it could cause the virus to spread.
 
mviy said:
I think when I see people wearing them under their nose they may as well not be wearing the masks at all.
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Do you all not know that some people only transmit and contract Covid through the mouth? :rolleyes:

Unfortunately I missed the memo, but probably a good 30-40% of “white guys” I see out and about in Singapore, where mask wearing is compulsory, do not have their mask covering their nose. Being a Caucasian male myself, It ticks me off because it gives us all a bad name and reinforces a stereotype of arrogance and entitlement. But on the plus, when hearing said people speak haven’t heard an Aussie accent once 👍
 
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