No, actually the Federal Govt has had more than enough stock - just inept management of it. This was why the Federal Govt was required to explicitly state they had experienced no supply issues with Pfizer (or face contract termination for misrepresenting contractual performance).
In the first week when they were to do 60,000 injections, they managed around 30,000 (which is the best % result so far btw) - they had well over 60,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine available. By the second week (still keeping back half for the 2nd dose) there were over 160,000 doses of Pfizer approved for doses in people's arm.
I traced the numbers & provided the details to numerous journalists/media outlets. Most chose not to run the story. The Federal Dept of Health tried to squelch it & initially refused to confirm the numbers, before caving to avoid the even more adverse article. They manipulated the figures somewhat & understated the 'available' for injection figures by close to 1 million doses btw. The 'manipulated' figures still look attrocious. Here is one group who did:
More than four million COVID vaccines have been received by the government, but Australia's sluggish rollout means less than 40 per cent of have gone out.
thenewdaily.com.au
Australia had received more than 4.1 million doses of vaccine as of
April 14.
<< Now this is where the DoH twisted the numbers, for example, Australia has actually received 9 shipments of Pfizer totalling nearly 1.3m doses NOT the 1.1 million (virtually 1.15m actually). Of which 1.15 million were available for injection as of April 8/9, and as of April 15th was 1.3 million (remember that DoH provided this info on April 19th). Yet DoH say 1.1m doses received.
>>
That includes 1.1 million doses of Pfizer and 714,000 doses of AstraZeneca imported from overseas, plus 2.3 million doses of AstraZeneca manufactured at Melbourne’s CSL plant, the department told
TND on Monday.
But the
latest figures on actual jabs in arms show just 1.586 million vaccinations had been given as of
Sunday, April 18.
<< So to compare like with like the DoH should have provided the 1.3 million Pfizer doses & and next week's released AZ doses which would have added around another 800,000 to bring the total up by close to 1 million doses. The extra 4 days (from April 14 to 18) is roughly 220,000 injections done if avged 55,000 a day out of another 1 million doses available or 22% of new stock. >>
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Phase 1A Priority recipients:
Q & Border workers = 70,000
Frontline healthcare worker sub-groups for prioritisation = 100,000
Aged & Disability Care residents = 190,000
Aged & Disability Care workers = 318,000
Total = 678,000
So Everyone in Phase 1A could have and should have received their 1st Pfizer dose & over 90% should have received their second.
Yet
1% of disability care workers had received their 1st shot & many were given AZ, the bulk of
aged care workers (85%) are still to receive their 1st shot, as are 15 to 20% or more of frontline health care yet to get their 1st dose and of those who have got their 1st in the last few weeks many were given AZ (in NSW at least) & are now waiting until the last week of June or July for their second AZ injection.
The
majority (93% actually) of disability care residents have not received their 1st dose either -
so who have been getting the rest of the Pfizer injections?
During the height of the pandemic, people with disability felt they had been forgotten and were not a priority. In the vaccine rollout, the government is repeating its past mistakes.
theconversation.com
It was revealed on Sunday night that 731,000 doses of AZ had been injected out of a total of 1,934,000 total injections, which leaves 1,203,000 Pfizer doses injected.
The DoH refused to provide the break-up of AZ shots vs Pfizer but a question about the number of clotting cases to number of AZ injections actually given was how the 731,000 AZ injections figure was mentioned at a media conference - letting the rabbit out of the hat!
As there remains over 450,000 priority 1A recipients' injections to be given (some their 2nd injection & others their 1st & 2nd injection) -
meaning well over 300,000 doses were given to non-Priority 1A people.
Actually the figure is much greater as AZ has been given to many Phase 1A over the last 3 weeks.
So who exactly has been getting the Pfizer shots? Don't hold your breath waiting for it to be revealed though.
thewest.com.au
