The COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Australia has begun

[tgh]

Our Clinic will receive their first allocation on the 22/03 (qld).
No favours though.. just ring up on the 22nd and join the queue…...

 

[Pushka]

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Our Clinic will receive their first allocation on the 22/03 (qld).
No favours though.. just ring up on the 22nd and join the queue…...

i have to find a queue to join as not all GP clinics are participating.

 

[DC3]

Our Clinic will receive their first allocation on the 22/03 (qld).
No favours though.. just ring up on the 22nd and join the queue…...

Lucky you. My regular Clinic (Brisbane area) has posted on their website that they are still waiting to hear from the Department of Health on a decision as to whether they will be able to offer the COVID vax.

 

[mviy]

Nice. I have a while to wait before I can join the queue but good to hear that we should see a lot more progress soon.

 

[Pushka]

Lucky you. My regular Clinic (Brisbane area) has posted on their website that they are still waiting to hear from the Department of Health on a decision as to whether they will be able to offer the COVID vax.

They have done the first 1000 I think and will move to the rest when supplies come online.

 

[Pushka]

Greg Hunt is being admitted to hospital for treatment of an infection. He received AZ last Saturday. Not believed to be related but if not it's very unfortunate Timing.

 

[Must...Fly!]

Greg Hunt is being admitted to hospital for treatment of an infection. He received AZ last Saturday. Not believed to be related but if not it's very unfortunate Timing.

Unfortunate indeed, disappointing as I'm sure it will give anti-vaxxers some ammunition.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Vaccinations rollout numbers progress (coughulative)

Jurisdiction Week 1 1/3, Week 2 8/3
NSW 10,339 21,763
Vic 3862, 14,422
Qld. 2030. 8300
WA. 2879. 7840
SA. 1630. 3705
Tas. 1165. 2327
ACT. 978. 1951
NT 748. 2066
Fed. (est). 10,071. 23,995
Total. 33,702. 86,369

Just as a guide - tracked numbers from covidlive website.

I can’t find any current allocation numbers. The first week is not now shown on the health gov au website ‘how covid 19 vaccines will be distributed’

 

[Must...Fly!]

He probably won’t need to worry about any extended hours just yet as the maximum GP allocation was just 400 doses a week! Most are getting 50-100 to start with....

GPs have already been told their initial allocation and start dates so surprised he hasn’t heard.

50 doses to start. Should be enough to get the staff done I suppose.

This slow release seems pretty deliberate. I think by the end of April we will see a huge uptick as processes proven and local production release in full swing.

 

[ethernet]

Arh, not like the 1960's where I lined up at school and had the man2 shots - well actually several 100 boys, all with the same glass syringe and needle. although I think the same needle was dipped in alcohol between shots. Barely 15 seconds between jabs. Yep them were the days. No reason why a farmers cattle press cannot be deployed in Qld or NT to improve the herd. This could be powerful TV for the anti-vaxxers - a parody should be allowable.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Vaccinations rollout numbers progress (coughulative)

Jurisdiction Week 1 1/3, Week 2 8/3
NSW 10,339 21,763
Vic 3862, 14,422
Qld. 2030. 8300
WA. 2879. 7840
SA. 1630. 3705
Tas. 1165. 2327
ACT. 978. 1951
NT 748. 2066
Fed. (est). 10,071. 23,995
Total. 33,702. 86,369

Just as a guide - tracked numbers from covidlive website.

I can’t find any current allocation numbers. The first week is not now shown on the health gov au website ‘how covid 19 vaccines will be distributed’

My guess is that numbers will soon start to really ramp up.

 

[jakeseven7]

50 doses to start. Should be enough to get the staff done I suppose.

This slow release seems pretty deliberate. I think by the end of April we will see a huge uptick as processes proven and local production release in full swing.

It is pretty deliberate (slow) because they don't have the vaccine ready unfortunately not because of any super complicated process they need to test.

GP clinics are very well versed in administering mass vaccines and AZ is not complicated, there is a little more documentation process but that's about it.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

My guess is that numbers will soon start to really ramp up.

Long Weekend in Vic over with the public holiday on Monday..

Vaccinations are for the day prior. So 2831 vaccinations yesterday in Vic, the largest volume yet. I assume in part as the Austin Hospital's second and larger vaccination facility (Can do 10,000 per week once fully commissioned) will now have started this week.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

March 10 Report (ie vaccinations as of yesterday):



Only 25-ish million to go

 

[Pushka]

March 10 Report (ie vaccinations as of yesterday):
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Only 25-ish million to go

WA seems to have this well organised. Double the number, whoops, almost triple SA’s number but I think similar trays of vaccines provided?

 

[DC3]

My guess is that numbers will soon start to really ramp up.

We can only hope.

 

[levelnine]

The slow roll out of the vaccine is nothing short of an international embarrassment of the highest order. Nationwide vaccination is the only thing that is going to give us any chance of avoiding rolling lockdowns, reopening our international borders, and saving the jobs of tens of thousands of people in the tourism, education & hospitality/retail industries.

Yet here we are with barely 100K doses 10 days into March when we were told we would have 4 million by the end of the month: Australia to roll out Covid vaccine in February, with goal for 4m jabs by March. To now reach that figure we need approx 200K per day every day starting tomorrow. At this rate, we'll be lucky to complete the vaccine roll out by mid next year.

Appalling.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Didn’t NSW Premier, NSW CHO and NSW Health Minister jump the queue for Astra Zeneca today?

 

[DC3]

Yet here we are with barely 100K doses 10 days into March when we were told we would have 4 million by the end of the month: Australia to roll out Covid vaccine in February, with goal for 4m jabs by March. To now reach that figure we need approx 200K per day every day starting tomorrow. At this rate, we'll be lucky to complete the vaccine roll out by mid next year.

Appalling.

I nelieve that it’s referred to as over-promising, and under-delivering.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Didn’t NSW Premier, NSW CHO and NSW Health Minister jump the queue for Astra Zeneca today?

Yes. Odd that someone did not complain. The main outrage is that Hazzard also got chocolates!






Though on a more serious note, politicians are elected to lead by example. So good on them. I just hope that Hazzard left some chocolates for us late comers!