Yes just the Guardian putting up a misleading headline.In the article it says this from Pfizer-
What that doesn't say that the delivery has been brought forward and that's what Morrison was saying.
And at the moment it is at least a little change in the game allowing us to quicken the pace of the roll out.
JakeSeven - I wonder how much we all paid to have them brought forward… and what country was knocked back in return…
Answer: Paid zero, no deliveries have been brought forward. No other country is missing out.
The reality is that no Pfizer dose deliveries for July are to be brought forward as Morrison claimed. This put Pfizer between a rock & a hardplace:
- they could tell the 100% truth and say no deliveries are being brought forward - exposing Morrison as a fraud for a second time in days; or
- they could just say that they would be delivering 40 million doses by the end of the year etc etc, and let Morrison escape demands for his resignation
Pfizer have already warned Morrison about making untrue comments and threatened to cancel all contracts when Morrison kept implying that there were delivery delays with Pfizer as well as AZ. Remember that Group 1A was to solely receive Pfizer. Pfizer US contacted the Federal Govt and demanded an immediate public apology which Morrison did at the end of his media conference in WA about the aftermath of the storms.
This time instead of Morrison making negative false comments about Pfizer, he made false positive comments.
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Greg Hunt the previous weekend outlined the weekly deliveries for July 2021 & August. Figures that he had already spoken about a month earlier:
- 300,000 doses 1st July delivery
- 500,000 2nd July delivery
- 1,000,000 3rd July delivery
- 1,000,000 4th July delivery
All Morrison did was pure spin. Just like finishing the National Cabinet meeting & announcing that under 40s could get AZ shots via GPs - which made it seem as if it had been both discussed and agreed to by 'National Cabinet' when in fact nothing of the sort had happened.
Two days later he was called out and then said he never implied it was a National Cabinet decision. So what do you do to take the spotlight off his misleading comments? Announce something that sounds good. Claim to have got Pfizer to speed up delivery given the Sydney outbreak.
Mr Morrison said on Friday the Pfizer delivery “ramps up further to 1 million and even more, or thereabouts, when we get into August” and would reach 4.5 million in that month.
Nothing changed though, still the same one page (updated) schedule as supplied by Pfizer in early February 2021 after contracting the 2nd 10 million doses.
Guess where 'tripling of shots' came from? 1st week in July @ 300,000 shots vs 3rd week deliveries @ 1,000,000 shots.
Never
let the truth get in the way of spin regardless of the circumstances.
Media conference - Greg Hunt
June 6, 2021
Read the transcript of the press conference with Minister Hunt in Mount Martha on 6 June with an update on COVID-19 Update, Record Bulk Billing Rates and Perinatal Mental Health Support
www.health.gov.au
"Then in terms of doses, what we’re expecting, as we’ve said, is that from July, we will move from a 300,000 to approximately 600,000 a week on average over July.
We’ll actually build up during the course of July, start lower and build up higher over the course of July. That will be maintained"
"But in addition, we will be receiving in the coming week 500,000 doses from the COVAX facility of Pfizer."
Greg Hunt was not making a mistake in his maths, the figures he had were adjusted to reflect that there were 4 deliveries in July to deal with 4.43 weeks, soneone in Fed Health may have been overly pedantic but correct.
2,800,000 / 4.43 = 632,000 doses/week
For August, maintained at 1 million/week = 4.43 million doses in the month. Last shipment in August to be around 1,300,000 actually as start of September ramp as there are 5 deliveries in August but the figure (yet again by a Health Dept pedant) is adjusted to August weeks, not total deliveries received.
Frankly I am
surprised that Morrison did not announce that he'd also brought forward deliveries in August to 5.3 million doses - after all that is the total of Pfizer deliveries on the schedule since February.
Mind you, all this is out by one week which is the nearly one week delay from landing in Australia, testing & approval for distribution.
Then on
June 14th, this gem was dropped:
"In terms of supply, last week the Therapeutic Goods Administration cleared 811,980 doses of Pfizer vaccine, and 232,800 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine."
Being the 500,000 Covax facility doses and 312,000 regular Pfizer weekly delivery - less random test samples.
Is this why numerous States were worried about running out of Pfizer? Did the extra 500,000 doses not get split over time but instead half delivered en-masse, so requiring more appointments to be added to the booking systems that then needed to be deleted from future weeks without the Fed Govt making it clear it was a temporary surge?
