True his death was timed unfortunately. However Tuskegee is cited wide and far in the US, very well known in the communities who were victims.Blacks in the US have other reasons to mistrust vaccines. Hank Aarons had the vaccine on TV and died a few days later. He did it to persuade blacks to have the vaccine.Didn't quite go the way intended.
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I think it means you need to up your contribution to repatriating Australians
I think it means you need to up your contribution to repatriating Australians
I thought they had said their tourism industries were going gangbusters....Mark McGowan has found another angle for himself and Anna. They are now saying the federal government should support industries that are being impacted by the international border closure due to lack of tourists.
WA set to reopen border to QLD
WA is on track to resume quarantine-free travel from Queensland next week, according to Premier Mark McGowan.www.google.com
No word on Victoria
Seriously?
Playing by their own rules again. It's extremely frustrating.Does seem a little odd as by Monday Vic will almost be at 28 days since the last local community case.
Still WA tourism going gangbusters evidently.
Let’s not talk about the amount of income tax which is paid by NSW residents.McGowan obviously thinks he will do better politically to keep Vic out, he made some crazy claims in his presser yesterday trying to look relevant on the east coast.
He ranted about how NSW wanted all mining and hardware stores shut down, but WA fought to keep open. Funny given NSW has never closed hardware stores only paused the Bunnings sausage sizzle briefly (yes well aware Bunnings is WA owned), and NSW has been open for all essential business always (even when Vic border was closed), mining industry is smaller here and not so dependent on FIFO, but it never ceased operating for Covid.
Then some bizarre claim about financially supporting NSW i nearly choked. WA mining revenue may be contributing to company income tax, but those mines couldnt operate without FIFO and NSW keeps far less GST revenue than it collects. WA is far more dependent on east coast for food supply.
Full of holidaying Qld politicians.I thought they had said their tourism industries were going gangbusters....
We have done well in NSW but much of the outcome was not due to anything the State Govt did. The State Govt system failed 3 or 4 times (different outbreaks in December that were detected). Contact tracing worked most of the time but failed to identify case zero in the largest outbreak, in the other cases the people who were the source of initial outbreaks identified themselves by going & get tested of their own volition.Paranoia at its best. the whole of sydney covid situation is will under control. the system has shown it works time and time again.
apart from one uncontrolled outbreak, due to lax HQ, rest of them have been quickly controlled by all states concerned.
we must stop this fear mongering and knee jerk reactions, that result in states locking out their own residents.
Then some bizarre claim about financially supporting NSW i nearly choked. WA mining revenue may be contributing to company income tax, but those mines couldnt operate without FIFO and NSW keeps far less GST revenue than it collects. WA is far more dependent on east coast for food supply.
NSW contact tracing has never identifed over a dozen transmission chains = not a success
I really hope that this is not just a coincidence but has anyone else noticed that the three countries that have subsequently developed more contagious variants are where the Astra Zeneca trials were held & the time frames of the trials overlap (with a suitable delay) the emergence of the new variants?The Oxford vaccine probably has a head start on the new mutations.Their Phase 3 trials were the UK,South Africa and Brazil.
Your assertion is nothing but speculation. Correlation does not imply causation and frankly even if (IF) one vaccine caused this problem then it is just as likely another did too.I really hope that this is not just a coincidence but has anyone else noticed that the three countries that have subsequently developed more contagious variants are where the Astra Zeneca trials were held & the time frames of the trials overlap (with a suitable delay) the emergence of the new variants?
Perhaps the question is not whether it has a 'head start' on the new mutations but did it cause them?
Just like bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics - did CV mutate as a result of exposure to the AZ/Oxford drug trials?
The very early Novavax trials in South Africa suggest that it is only around 60% effective in reducing the symptoms of the South African strain (for people who haven't had HIV) vs around 90% in the UK overall.