justinbrett
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Well what I got out of that interview was different to you.At one stage he says tghat is not to say that AZ is banned in younger age groups and people should talk to their GP.That advice is repeated later on.
You do like the retrospectoscope now.You are saying they underestimated the risk at that point in time which is not true unless you had a crystal ball.Since the number of cases expanded dramatically just after that interview they reassessed risk and gave the green light to more AZ use.
Again they are an advisory group not a policy making group.
The whole problem is they thought they could turn AZ on and off like a tap. It takes the best part of a year to vaccinate a population. I would think the fact just about every city had an outbreak by this point made a crystal ball unnecessary. You don’t need a crystal ball to know that covid is incredibly infectious.
The fact is they put conflicting comments in the media that was used against the government to further demonise AZ. That is a fact, you just have to see the way that interview was covered in the media afterwards including the QandA episode I covered earlier where the panel collectively talked an audience member out of getting AZ based on ATAGI comments amongst others.
There‘s plenty of other scholarly articles which reflect my point of view more articulately and I think history will not be kind to ATAGI with respect to this advice.
If you can’t provide clear messaging to the average public DON’T GIVE MEDIA INTERVIEWS!