The COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Australia has begun

[Batterytraveller]

SPC have decided their workers are essential (at least to them) and made it mandatory for everyone who works there to be vaxxed by November. Good on them and I hope the first of many.

SPC makes COVID vaccination mandatory for workforce, becoming Australian test case

 

[drron]

A statement which highlights both the foolishness of Young's commentary, and the bizarre nature of ATAGI's advice.

ATAGI's advice was always that AZ was an effective regime and if Covid cases rose the advice would be changed.Right from the beginning they advised that anyone who had had the first dose of AZ should have a second AZ.
bizarre was the public reaction fuelled by the media.
The people to blame though are the federal and State Leaders and Health ministers plus CHOs who should have been correcting the medias omission of crucial facts.It is what fuels my opinion that the QLD CHO in particular is incompetent at best.

 

[Pushka]

ATAGI's advice was always that AZ was an effective regime and if Covid cases rose the advice would be changed.Right from the beginning they advised that anyone who had had the first dose of AZ should have a second AZ.
bizarre was the public reaction fuelled by the media.
The people to blame though are the federal and State Leaders and Health ministers plus CHOs who should have been correcting the medias omission of crucial facts.It is what fuels my opinion that the QLD CHO in particular is incompetent at best.

The trouble is that 'riders' to statements are always ignored by the media because that isn't where the headlines are and media considers that riders actually detract from the sensation. And politicians and 'bodies' don't seem to get that when making definitive statements. Well, except for QLD CHO who never gave a rider, just a statement bomb.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

From ABC blog

Additional Pfizer headed to Sydney​

Almost 185,000 additional Pfizer doses will be sent to Sydney this month to help manage the city's ongoing COVID-19 outbreak.

The first doses will arrive in Sydney over the coming week, with the total amount to arrive before the end of the month.

But the doses aren't coming at the expense of other states, and are part of doses that are being brought-forward thanks to supplies arriving from Pfizer earlier than expected in September.

Head of the COVID-19 Vaccine Taskforce, Lieutenant-General John Frewen, said as a result they're sending out second-dose supplies early.

"September has — it's almost a five-week month. So Pfizer have now advised us that there will be amounts coming through in that final week of September that we're able to manage in this way," he said.

"What we can now do, because of dose duration, is release some of that second-dose stuff, and risk manage it with the stuff that will arrive now in late September.

"So that's how we manage these bring forwards. But it really depends on additional amounts coming in."

Lieutenant-General Frewen said the government was also talking to Queensland about what could be done to provide doses sooner than expected there.

 

[jakeseven7]

SPC have decided their workers are essential (at least to them) and made it mandatory for everyone who works there to be vaxxed by November. Good on them and I hope the first of many.

SPC makes COVID vaccination mandatory for workforce, becoming Australian test case

That’s good I only ever buy their tinned tomatoes from Australian farms rather than the cheap imported stuff!

 

[mviy]

5 deaths in SYD, 3 in 60s, 1 in 70s and 1 in 80s.

I expect we’ll hear most or all of them were unvaccinated. All would have had plenty of opportunity to have at least one AZ dose if not both.

Whilst there have been some young people that have died in this outbreak the vast majority have been older people who have had access to the vaccine for a long time now.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

5 deaths in SYD, 3 in 60s, 1 in 70s and 1 in 80s.

I expect we’ll hear most or all of them were unvaccinated. All would have had plenty of opportunity to have at least one AZ dose if not both.

Whilst there have been some young people that have died in this outbreak the vast majority have been older people who have had access to the vaccine for a long time now.

1 had an Astra Zeneca dose in late May

 

[Spongbob]

I just used the Federal vaccine checker (COVID-19 Vaccine Eligibility Checker), and it shows a 37 y.o. in NSW has to wait till September for Pfizer.

 

[jakeseven7]

I just used the Federal vaccine checker (COVID-19 Vaccine Eligibility Checker), and it shows a 37 y.o. in NSW has to wait till September for Pfizer.

Yes we all know there are delays with Pfizer but that 37 year old should really be seeing a GP / pharmacist and getting AZ unless they are in the microscopic minority who can’t get it.

 

[Pushka]

There was a poster on SA Health FB complaining they couldn't get a vaccination until September. I don't know their age. So I responded - 'so I take it you booked that date which is a good thing to get started'. Clearly they just wanted to complain because they deleted their post.

 

[Flying mermaid]

1 had an Astra Zeneca dose in late May

I feel very sorry for them - Dr Chant reiterated people not waiting for 12 weeks but coming forward immediately.

 

[Must...Fly!]

bizarre was the public reaction fuelled by the media

Oh I agree completely.

The trouble is that 'riders' to statements are always ignored by the media because that isn't where the headlines are

Yep this is also true I think. The ATAGI advice on its own was ok - they obviously know more than I about immunisation! But the style of statements and communication left a big vacuum in which the media and poorly considered health officials jumped in to filling. Leaving us where we are today.

 

[burmans]

SPC have decided their workers are essential (at least to them)

Most of us do need to eat.

 

[Lynda2475]

SPC have decided their workers are essential (at least to them) and made it mandatory for everyone who works there to be vaxxed by November.

All workplaes should be empowered to put vaccination requirment in place. And for those workplaces that fall into 1a and 1b, that compliance date should be much earlier givent hey have had access since March.

 

[dairyfloss]

I just used the Federal vaccine checker (COVID-19 Vaccine Eligibility Checker), and it shows a 37 y.o. in NSW has to wait till September for Pfizer.

Yes we all know there are delays with Pfizer but that 37 year old should really be seeing a GP / pharmacist and getting AZ unless they are in the microscopic minority who can’t get it.

Yes, running the same check on that site for a NSW 37 Y.O. and 'willing to have AZ', I indicate no conditions or concerning history, and I can book an AZ shot within the next 2 days.

 

[jakeseven7]

Yes, running the same check on that site for a NSW 37 Y.O. and 'willing to have AZ', I indicate no conditions or concerning history, and I can book an AZ shot within the next 2 days.

Case closed, just do it people

 

[Pushka]

Listening to ABC radio re SPC. They had a rep from Civil Liberties on whom we assumed would be dead against compulsory vaccination. However, she presented the opposite saying it was a civil liberty issue to be able to go to work and know you weren’t going to be endangered by others.

 

[Flying mermaid]

Listening to ABC radio re SPC. They had a rep from Civil Liberties on whom we assumed would be dead against compulsory vaccination. However, she presented the opposite saying it was a civil liberty issue to be able to go to work and know you weren’t going to be endangered by others.

Finally a bit of common sense!

 

[NM]

Mrs NM received her email notification from Qld Health that she was now able to create and account and make a booking for her first vaccination dose. Booking made for about 2 weeks time. So well ahead of the suggested October schedule in the email received about two weeks ago. So she should be double-dipped by mid September.

This may coincide with an announcement this morning that Qld was to receive an early allotment of Pfizer. The announcement noted this was not additional doses, just an earlier availability in August rather than September.

I am awaiting my notification of invitation to book for my shot, We are both in the same age grouping and category and registered at a similar time (I think hers was registered first). I expect to receive notification any day now.

 

[jb747]

Yes, running the same check on that site for a NSW 37 Y.O. and 'willing to have AZ', I indicate no conditions or concerning history, and I can book an AZ shot within the next 2 days.

Just tried it for a 34 year old in Melbourne. Unsurprisingly, it crashed.