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I don’t understand the above argument. I thought we’d already bought 30 million doses so the marketing or cash cow thing is irrelevant

🤷‍♂️ that was the data that came out when the first vaccine was announced with 90% efficacy, based on the virus r value I’ll take it from the epidemiologists...

That’s exactly what I think, and the data suggests that your 2.5 million unvaccinated would be an excellent, aspirational goal. The research suggests you only need 65% take up of the vaccine at 90% efficacy to stop the spread. The virus just can’t find enough pathways to effectively spread

I think the idea of eradication and the paranoia around this virus is a bit ridiculous. We have had high-quality vaccinations for things like measles for many years and we still have outbreaks. We need to be prepared to accept that some cases will occur into the future. I do recall hearing on...

Yes I believe it is now on that website as travel to be extended until the end of March. However the promo code still needs to be used by the end of November hence my urgency to book something this week even though travel seems extremely unlikely they also have communicated this March extension...

Obviously different degrees of priority here. I will take every vaccine there is, and in my eyeballs if I have to, just to be able to travel and see family again, let them meet my new child and others that are growing too fast... not all of my family members are guaranteed to survive the...

unfortunately I have to be travelling with them and they check medic ID apparently. my main hope will be that they allow changes to beyond the end of March as they ran a similar promo for teachers that allowed bookings until September

Hi all, Wonder if I can get some advice on terminology regarding cancellation of flights and airport fees and taxes refunds. Any advice / experience would be much appreciated I won free tickets under the Qatar Airways medics promo - super excited I was - 'free' flights for 2 anywhere in the...

Sigh this promo is a bit of a disaster. I was so excited to have won, far and away the best prize I've ever won. However there are no flights out of Australia, and they have no plans to extend ticket validity beyond march 2021 which is looking unlikely to be honest. So do we just burn the...

I posted a while back that all ahpra registered nurses and midwives have been contacted to see if they are eligible to become part of the vaccine administration effort. Many of them have the certification to do so in the out of hospital environment and do so for flu vaccines for example into...

The race is on!!!

that’s not really how we expect vaccines And immunity to work. The idea is that if a significant number are immune to the virus then it stops the spread as it is unlikely you’ll have repeated interactions between the proportion of people that are not immune That is to say, you’re one positive...

I was unfortunate enough to witness his overly wordy smirky news conference he specifically said there will be no decisions made on international travel, only discussion on countries and appropriate quarantine measures that might be put in place (I assume this means a transition from the...

Good news 90% effective at this stage “Gathering the required safety data will take until the third week of November, says the company. The dossier will then be submitted to the regulators for approval. Speedy licensing could mean the first doses being given to healthcare workers by the end of...

Comfort be damned, I will fly standing room only if they let me!

Interesting. Jetstar is still selling their routes to Hawaii from March/April I wonder if this relates to it being an island that has controlled the virus much more effectively than the rest of the United States. I know that they only recently opened up to visitors using a negative Covid test...

Not only that but I’ve already had multiple discussions with people that feel they’ve done their dash with domestic travel and have spent enough. we had a month in Hawaii booked but replaced it with a few short regional nsw trips. Those short trips all cost the same total amount as our one trip...

On the vaccine front ahpra recently sent out emails to all registered nurses and midwives requesting they confirm if they are also registered immunisers (an additional short certification). These are staff that have historically been seconded to private businesses to administer flu vaccines to...

Dare I say the answer to that is probably ‘who cares?’ all the state border talks and pressures centre around nsw, vic and qld. I had no idea there were restrictions on wa for a long time.

Correction. Only if we care if it works ;) The only efficacy I can recall being stipulated as a minimum is 70% and even that?.....