The COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Australia has begun

[mviy]

Not sure where your from, but what's with the 1/3 & 1/7 fraction stats.......we talk as the PDF release states in %% terms.

Someone who studied maths and can convert percentages to fractions and vice versa. Elementary stuff that people really should have learnt in school.

1 in 3, 1 in 7 etc. can be easier for people to visualise than percentages.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Someone who studied maths and can convert percentages to fractions and vice versa. Elementary stuff that people really should have learnt in school.

1 in 3, 1 in 7 etc. can be easier for people to visualise than percentages.

There you go again - should, should, should.

Things which are theoretically possible.

 

[MooTime]

Someone who studied maths and can convert percentages to fractions and vice versa. Elementary stuff that people really should have learnt in school.

1 in 3, 1 in 7 etc. can be easier for people to visualise than percentages.

Yes I clearly know off the cuff what they equate in %% terms, but we don't use 1/3 & 2/7 in Australia.

33% is lot easier to visualise than 1/3, it's like pre-decimal times 500 years ago.

sorry don't need to study maths to know this & anyway who didn't study maths in school?

 

[Batterytraveller]

I realise not everyone can be above average but I’m disappointed my home state (VIC) is is the drag on the vaccine rollout right now.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1424936684567683081

 

[RAM]

Because moderna distribution is not complex at all, and Pharmacies are not conveininet for many. Not giving access to Moderrna via state hubs lacks forsight and is only going to slow the roll-out over all.

'not convenient for many'?

In our region there are 7 day a week chemists with extended hours. 4 different competing chemists in one strip of shops alone vs 1 medical centre with typically a 3 hour wait.

In another direction (20 minutes walk) there are 3 chemists, 2 are 7 days a week with extended hours.

In regional Australia there are many areas where there is no GP but a chemist. The GP turns up maybe once a week or once per fortnight (if at all). Hard for Chemists to be anymore convenient than that!

 

[RAM]

Your choice, but you can only travle 10kms (so its not all over)

WRONG.

Every state has that you can travel any distance for:

• medical attention, to do with non-CV issues
• CV test
• CV vaccination

Not, inter-state though.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

I realise not everyone can be above average but I’m disappointed my home state (VIC) is is the drag on the vaccine rollout right now.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1424936684567683081

Yes outbreaks help, though their effect does unfortunately not seem to last unless the outbreak lasts. Vic will rise this week dur the latest outbreak.

Next week will be higher too as Vic will by then be receiving its "future Pfizer doses in advance" that NSW is and recently Qld too are recently being allocated.

Freeing up access to AZ for the younger cohort with a much simpler process will help too.

 

[RAM]

When today's numbers come out tomorrow we should have over 1/3 of 50+ fully vaccinated!

80-84 and 85-89 should pass 50% fully vaccinated as well.

70-74 has reached 80% first dose. So every age group 70-74 and up except 95+ has reached or passed 80% with the first dose.

2/3 of 60-64 have had their first dose.

The only age group 40-44 and older that has less than 25% fully vaccinated is 60-64. That should change in a few days.

1/7 35-39 are fully vaccinated and almost 1/8 of 30-34 year olds.

...and over 30% of all Disability Care facility residents still waiting on their Federal Govt organised 'Priority Group 1A' (no longer Pfizer only) first dose visit. Just around 10,600 of the most vulnerable who were due to be fully vaccinated 18 weeks ago.
Disability Provider Alert
23 April 2021
The Australian Government has contracted ASPEN to continue the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine for people with disability living in residential accommodation of two or more people eligible under phase 1a.
The rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine will ramp up with ASPEN from early May 2021, initially targeting the smaller states and territories; the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory. They will then expand to other states and territories.

Despite the ever so quiet April 23rd announcement that Aspen Medical would be taking over the vaccination program Australia-wide.

COVID-19 vaccine rollout update – 9 August 2021

This presentation, delivered on 9 August 2021, contains an update to Australia's COVID-19 vaccine rollout.

www.health.gov.au

We continue to ramp up our visits to disability residents with complex needs who require in-reach services. More than 16,700 people (61.3 per cent) with a disability in a residential setting have now received at least one dose of vaccine - August 9 Report.

 

[Pushka]

I realise not everyone can be above average but I’m disappointed my home state (VIC) is is the drag on the vaccine rollout right now.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1424936684567683081

SA is actually slowing down!

 

[Must...Fly!]

I would hope Jeanette Young is proud of herself with that trend line.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

SA is actually slowing down!

Yes, unfortunately been slowing down since the Doherty targets were announced.

Sorry to say that SA appears to be last in the race.

Its still about a 30-day difference first to last and we are probably 3 months before achieving 70% nationally, so plenty of time to catch up.

 

[Lynda2475]

Every state has that you can travel any distance for:

• medical attention, to do with non-CV issues
• CV test
• CV vaccination

No in NSW you can only travel more than that distance if that medical treatment, test or vaccination is not available within 10km.

You would be hard pushed to need to travel more than 10kms (and that is radius, not driving distance) to find a testing site, hospital, GP or vaccination site (GP, state hub, RC or chemist).

If you live in Liverpool but are found on the Northern Beaches, the medical, CV test or vaccination excuse wont hold water and you will be fined because there were much closer options.

 

[Lynda2475]

Our in regional Australia there are many areas where there is no GP but a chemist. The GP turns up maybe once a week or once per fortnight (if at all). Hard for Chemists to be anymore convenient than that!

And regional areas have state hubs located at hospitals, very conveinient.

Just because a chemist store opens extended hours doenst mean there is always a pharmacist on duty, nor that vaccinations are offered outside of business hours.

You may find it conveinient just as many will not, hence why Moderna needs to be available at the state hubs (open 8am to 8pm) also.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

I'm guessing by tomorrow's update, every jurisdiction will be 40% first dose and 20% 2-dose. WA has 39.98% first dose.

 

[serfty]

we don't use 1/3 & 2/7 in Australia.

Speak for yourself!

I use vulgar fractions all the time.

Unvaccinated people who contract COVID get hospitalised approx. 1/5 of the time and up to 1/10 of those die from it.

 

[oz_mark]

I realise not everyone can be above average but I’m disappointed my home state (VIC) is is the drag on the vaccine rollout right now.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1424936684567683081

WA is hardly setting the world on fire either...

 

[drron]

No n NSW you can only travel more than that distance if that medical treatment, test or vaccination is not available within 10km.

You would be hard pushed to need to travel more than 10kms (and that is radius, not driving distance) to find a testing site, hospital, GP or vaccition site (GP, state hub, RC or chemist).

If you live in Liverpool but are found on the Northern Beaches, the medical, CV test or vaccination excuse wont hold water and you will be fined because there were much closer options.

You obviously don't know many people living in Rural areas.Take Mt. Isa.!8500 in the city.LGA area is ~43000 sq Km.Population 32000.And most of those outside the city limits are well beyond the city limits.
And in NSW what about those back of Bourke.

 

[Lynda2475]

And in NSW what about those back of Bourke.

They are not part of greater Sydney and not currently subject to a 5km or 10km rule.

If they were actually restricted (which they are not) they would be permitted to travel further for medical reasons if there geuinely isnt something closer within the restricted area.

But in Greater Sydney that excuse doesnt wash because you are not likley to be more 10kms (radius) from a hospital, vaccination location or testing site.

So my statement that you can only travel further if that service is not available within the approved distance is correct.

You can not as RAM implied just travel any distance under the current lockdown rules citing the "medical"loophole, if you travel uncessary distances you can be fined. You have to show that you couldnt receive that treatement, test or vaccine within the approved 10km radius.

 

[RAM]

No in NSW you can only travel more than that distance if that medical treatment, test or vaccination is not available within 10km.

You would be hard pushed to need to travel more than 10kms (and that is radius, not driving distance) to find a testing site, hospital, GP or vaccination site (GP, state hub, RC or chemist).

If you live in Liverpool but are found on the Northern Beaches, the medical, CV test or vaccination excuse wont hold water and you will be fined because there were much closer options.

When asked, the NSW Premier said , "Don't be silly, if there are queues at nearest test centres then go to ones where there are shorter queues" = no distance limit.

State hubs are up to 50km+ away for some people = no distance limit. I can book a vaccination anywhere in Sydney if there is an appointment.

If your heart specialist is 72 km away then you can go to your heart specialist.

BTW - exemptions apply unless clearly you are not following them - your example of the Northern Beaches would not hold water (if for a medical appointment or vaccination for Pfizer say) unless the police found you lying (perhaps laying) on the beach.

Under the current NSW exemptions you can go from Wollongong to Byron Bay to look at a potential residential property purchase, or drive from Blackheath to Cronulla to buy a piece of furniture from a cabinetmaker next to the ferry wharf to Bundeena - even if you could have it delivered.

 

[oznflfan]

Article just published in The Age:

Is the herd immunity dream dead?​

Wrapping it up​

Let’s shrug off this doom and gloom and return, for a moment, to Iceland. Iceland’s viral surge did not just happen. It happened after the country lifted domestic restrictions. This is the key point: we remain in control of the virus. We can allow it back in our community when enough people are vaccinated, when we are ready, and with some restrictions to stop the virus spreading so fast it overwhelms our healthcare system, as is now happening in Iceland.
None of these predictions suggest that COVID-19 will vanish. But we can learn to live with it, as we do many other viruses, says Professor Fiona Russell.
“We don’t stop the economy or go into lockdown for a flu epidemic,” she says.

“Once were vaccinated, and we’re minimising the death and morbidity, that’s when we need to start thinking about and responding to COVID in a similar way to other viruses that we have every year, and put it in perspective. We can’t keep living like this.”