The COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Australia has begun

[burmans]

Unfortunately in NSW it's starting to look like the vaccination rate may have peaked, most noticeable for first doses. Next couple of weeks will be interesting to see if this is about AZ hesitancy and the recent supplies of Pfizer will address. My suspicion is yes but only time will tell.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Unfortunately in NSW it's starting to look like the vaccination rate may have peaked, most noticeable for first doses. Next couple of weeks will be interesting to see if this is about AZ hesitancy and the recent supplies of Pfizer will address. My suspicion is yes but only time will tell.

What measure are you using to say the NSW vax rate has peaked?

 

[Princess Fiona]

Unfortunately in NSW it's starting to look like the vaccination rate may have peaked, most noticeable for first doses. Next couple of weeks will be interesting to see if this is about AZ hesitancy and the recent supplies of Pfizer will address. My suspicion is yes but only time will tell.

In my region there is a lot of AZ hesitancy.
It’s not helped by the local media and MPs who are continually using their platforms to moan about Pfizer being targeted in Western and SW Sydney.
Most of the comments on the Socials are people who fully intend to be vaccinated but either can’t get Pfizer appointments or it’s too far away.

I think once we are swimming in Pfizer the rates will rise rapidly again.

 

[Princess Fiona]

What measure are you using to say the NSW vax rate has peaked?

 

[mviy]

Unfortunately in NSW it's starting to look like the vaccination rate may have peaked, most noticeable for first doses. Next couple of weeks will be interesting to see if this is about AZ hesitancy and the recent supplies of Pfizer will address. My suspicion is yes but only time will tell.

NSW still appears to be having over 1% of the 16+ pop a day getting their first dose on a weekday which is leading the nation.

It jumped from 71.5% to 72.63% when Friday's numbers came out today. I think this is doing pretty good.

VIC only went up from 58.9% to 59.72%

QLD went from 52.17% to 52.7%

Despite NSW's high vaccination rates, much higher first doses than any other state and a decent gap over the territory ACT their first doses for 16+ are still leading the nation.

For 70+ sure TAS did 0.36% of the pop compared with 0.35% for NSW and VIC yesterday but with 91.06% to 91.41% how much of the increase being what it is is down to anti-vaxxers in NSW in the elderly versus those that are just anti-AZ?

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

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Thanks.

But still excellent by world/Australian standards. A drop sort of has to be expected at some point. If NSW is still above everyone say bar Victoria when NSW flies past 80% first dose, then its all good (for NSW).

 

[antycbr]

Thanks.

But still excellent by world/Australian standards. A drop sort of has to be expected as some point. If NSW is still above everyone say bar Victoria when NSW flies past 80% first dose, then its all good (for NSW).

And remember we havent applied any decent sticks yet.

 

[mviy]

The increased Pfizer availability and certain freedoms only for the vaccinated should lead to more of the hesitant going out and getting the jab.

I still think NSW will go well past 80% fully vaccinated before a lot of the other states reach 80% fully vaccinated.

Tasmania has given over 10% less of their 16+ population a first dose and the next closest state VIC is over 2% of the population behind TAS.

NSW may reach 80% fully vaccinated before the other states reach 70%.

 

[drron]

I have heard some discussion that some people think Moderna is "better", so yes even within mrna there is a choice.

Yes there is some evidence that Moderna may be better than pfizer.

Study suggests higher humoral immunogenicity in individuals vaccinated with mRNA-1273 compared with BNT162b2

Findings from a study published in JAMA demonstrated a significantly higher humoral immunogenicity in individuals who received the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2) mRNA-1273 vaccine (Moderna) compared with those who received the BNT162b2 vaccine (Pfizer-BioNTech). A...

dgalerts.docguide.com

And see my post 5936.Evidence that protection with AZ will last longer than pfizer and may mean more time between boosters.Also that AZ is an effective booster and side effects get less after the first jab.
VITT is common after the first jab of AZ and rare with the second.1 in 3.5 million on the Australian figures.

So doubly sad that people are hanging out for Pfizer when evidence is accumulating it might be the least efficient of the 3 we will have available.

 

[burmans]

The increased Pfizer availability and certain freedoms only for the vaccinated should lead to more of the hesitant going out and getting the jab.

I still think NSW will go well past 80% fully vaccinated before a lot of the other states reach 80% fully vaccinated.

Tasmania has given over 10% less of their 16+ population a first dose and the next closest state VIC is over 2% of the population behind TAS.

NSW may reach 80% fully vaccinated before the other states reach 70%.

Thanks to PrincessFiona for posting, my info was from Charting the jab: Young people in NSW are taking up the vaccine at twice the rate of everyone else but similar, except you can see the 1st/2nd jab breakdown.

I too think we will get to 80%, it was more a questioning of timing. I've thought for a while we might get a slow down so have been watching closely for this.

 

[Beasley]

Wow .... have a look at the dismal QLD performance on that chart. For a state with one of the lowest vaccination rates in Australia, that is simply terrible.

Their leaders seem to love lecturing to the rest of the country about COVID .... but they dont appear capable of vaccnating their people.

 

[Lynda2475]

Unfortunately in NSW it's starting to look like the vaccination rate may have peaked, most noticeable for first doses

Too early to make that call given none of the SIngapore or UK Pfizer doses have been distributed yet, and most of the 16-39s who booked Pfizer when their cohort opened have bookings for Oct, many of which will hopefully get brought forward now (along with restoring dose 2 to a 3 week gap to speed up the more importantsecond dose).

 

[Spongbob]

As H. H. Asquith once said: "Wait and see, that is my policy".

 

[JB expat]

Wow .... have a look at the dismal QLD performance on that chart. For a state with one of the lowest vaccination rates in Australia, that is simply terrible.

Their leaders seem to love lecturing to the rest of the country about COVID .... but they dont appear capable of vaccnating their people.

I think QLD proves that the national vaccine rollout (specifically NSW and VIC) would have remained snail paced but for the current situation. I’m curious as to what messaging occurred in Tassie as it seems to have done pretty well vaccination wise without suffering lockdowns (admittedly, I don’t follow Tassie news). I also think that those of us who want to travel overseas are somewhat the winners of the current waves. Had the current strategy continued to work and the slow vaccination rate continued, it would have taken forever to join the rest of the world as the government seemed unwilling to give a drop dead date (pun intended).

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

I think QLD proves that the national vaccine rollout (specifically NSW and VIC) would have remained snail paced but for the current situation. I’m curious as to what messaging occurred in Tassie as it seems to have done pretty well vaccination wise without suffering lockdowns (admittedly, I don’t follow Tassie news). I also think that those of us who want to travel overseas are somewhat the winners of the current waves. Had the current strategy continued to work and the slow vaccination rate continued, it would have taken forever to join the rest of the world as the government seemed unwilling to give a drop dead date (pun intended).

Agree with the message, but even the current Qld vaccine (edit - rollout) would have been slower still but for the current situation.

It would be good to know why/how Tassie got out in numbers so far. I doubt its just a case that the small numbers/area make things easy - and would be relevant for ACT and perhaps to a lesser extent NT as well.

 

[drron]

Tassie have mostly been consistent in their messaging,Common to see ads to get vaccinated.Currently are just finishing the first week of a 6 week vaccination blitz.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Might not apply to anyone but just another way to thinking about graceful nudging those who are hesitant/anti:

In the US, there are plenty of posts of people getting of covid. One example, a person (who eventually died) was begging someone to take care of their dog. So if you know an anti-covid vaxxer perhaps living alone and loves their dog. Perhaps find a relevant post, start talking about getting vaccinated again and ask them “what would happen to your dog if you were hospitalised or died?”

I guess the difficulty is Australia doesn't have many "common" examples.

 

[jakeseven7]

A truly moronic week up here even by our QLD standards and now in addition to the apology there is a full backtrack over the stupid vaccination comments around children and borders. What a mess but clearly losing the support of her Federal counterparts helped QLD see some sense…

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Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk softens position on vaccines and hard border closure​

Queensland’s border ban could end sooner than everyone thought with Annastacia Palaszczuk backflipping her rhetoric on vaccines.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has back tracked on her comments that she would not open her state until there are vaccines available for children under the age of 12.

On Sunday, she urged Queensland residents to get vaccinated but indicated that would occur in line with the national plan of 70 and 80 per cent double dosed, not a local target.

How Queensland’s border could open

On Sunday, the Covid numbers in NSW were grim news once again with 1485 new coronavirus cases and three deaths overnight, while Victoria recorded 185 new cases.

www.news.com.au

 

[mviy]

Some details of how Australia secured the swap with the UK: Half a million Pfizer vaccines on their way from Heathrow for Australian arms

 

[mviy]

Nearly 2/3 of 70+ are fully vaccinated.

Almost 2/3 of 40-44 and 45-49 have had their first dose.

20% of 30-34 year olds are fully vaccinated, 1/4 of the way to 80%.

VIC has reached 60.29% first dose for 16+. TAS has reached 45.35% fully vaccinated for 16+.

VIC has a slightly higher percentage of 50+ fully vaccinated than NSW though with NSW having higher first doses this will surely flip back.