The COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Australia has begun

[HappyFlyerFamily]

ABC reporting

Clive Palmer says he will challenge WA's vaccine border requirement​

Queensland businessman Clive Palmer claims Western Australia's border vaccine requirements are unconstitutional, and says he will launch a High Court challenge.

Western Australia will tomorrow designate New South Wales a high-risk state.

It will require anyone entering WA from there to show proof of at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccination.

In a statement released by his United Australia Party, Mr Palmer claims that is in breach of section 117 of the constitution and discriminates against the people of New South Wales.

The former federal MP says he will start High Court proceedings within the next 14 days against Premier Mark McGowan and the WA Government.

In November last year, Mr Palmer lost a High Court challenge against Western Australia's coronavirus border closures.

 

[Pushka]

With SA opening up vaccinations to all this morning, over 115,000 appointments were made since 9am. Previous record was 29,000. Go you good young things. Adelaide's population is only 1.3 million.

 

[N860CR]

With SA opening up vaccinations to all this morning, over 115,000 appointments were made since 9am. Previous record was 29,000. Go you good young things. Adelaide's population is only 1.3 million.

I do wonder if we got the rollout the wrong way around. Obviously 1A/B were critical, but perhaps after them it should have been offered in reverse (ie start with the younger group and move up).

It’s very clear that the younger generations want to move on with life and quickly. They’re the ones who have really suffered both financially and mentally. Whereas are larger portion of the 50+ club probably did drag their feet because, for one, they could afford to (financially and mentally).

Boomers dragging us back again

 

[VPS]

With SA opening up vaccinations to all this morning, over 115,000 appointments were made since 9am. Previous record was 29,000. Go you good young things. Adelaide's population is only 1.3 million.

Yep a couple of younger friends posting on FB this morning they have got their appointments - yay

 

[Pushka]

Boomers dragging us back again

Not all boomers. Some of us want a life back. My doona needs a complete refresh.

 

[RAM]

I am greatly disturbed when Australia does not immediately follow the lead of Canada and others.
Vaccine makers have tight adgenda, and will stick to the known, and downplay external factors.
I think I have read the sweet spot for pz is 6-8 weeks. 3 weeks in hot zones I accept as a necessity. Rather than hard inflexible timeframes, there should be wriggle room. I was due for my AZ booster in Canberra, and they told me I could not bring it forward on the day Canberra went into a lockdown. 12 weeks vs 11.5 weeks. But Oh, if I saw the doctor that could change. I smell overservicing, so will make a point of getting it elsewhere.

Can I type in my rural NSW postcode and get a location of the nearest provider? No. Rather than a list, I must do this eligibility test thingy again. Useless.

If not already found somewhere - try HotDocs.

 

[RAM]

Not sure if anyone has mentioned the cost of the vaccines before. As expected wealthier countries pay more per dose to offset the cost for those less fortunate. The average cost for either pfizer or moderna is around $30US. AZ is about the cost of a coffee but they are selling it cheaper as they appear to not be profiteering on the back of a pandemic.

AstraZeneca marketing has been brilliant but not true.

They're charging some 3rd world countries more than 1st world countries.

People seem to have accepted what they say, a bit like Scott Morrison's 'First in the queue', as being true.

Far from it. The BBC revealed the highest price charged by AZ is GBP 8 per dose.

Covid vaccines: Will drug companies make bumper profits?

Governments and charities have invested billions in vaccines developed by private firms.

www.bbc.com

This article provides a good explanation of how AZ justifies the price differentials, but given total cost of developing divided by doses contracted does not provide the outcome needed to make what they say true. Especially as GBP2.1 billion of development cost came from Govts & donations.

AZ is saying total cost of development (covering 20 years of failed coronavirus research perhaps?) is GBP 8.17 billion. Or GBP 680m per week from Jan 31 to when they announced a successful vaccine had been created and human testing would begin. That is using existing machinery & technology that had been in use for decades.

Compare it to BioNTech/Pfizers R&D costs of GBP 2.25 billion.

Curiously enough AZ's cost is more than every other Western vaccine for CV added together - Johnson & Johnson's same tech vaccine requiring just one dose is less than 1/10 the R&D cost of AZ based on identical technology.

Who's not making a profit?

Covid-19: Countries are learning what others paid for vaccines

A string of revelations about vaccine prices has focused attention on a practice considered normal in the drug industry but often frowned on elsewhere: charging different prices to different customers for the same product. South Africa’s government found itself on the defensive this week after...

www.bmj.com

South Africa’s government found itself on the defensive this week after a senior health official revealed that 1.5 million doses of the Oxford and AstraZeneca vaccine just purchased for use among health workers would cost $5.25 (£3.84; €4.32) a dose, more than twice what the European Union is paying at $2.15.

The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is much cheaper, although neither the UK nor the US can match the EU’s $2.15 deal: they are expecting to pay about $3 and $4, respectively, per dose.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Maybe the government unit that publishes the vaccine rollout figures are now directly caught up in the ACT lockdown (eg positive case, or household/close contact)....still waiting.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

The daily report is in a new format. See HERE

The new layout is probably why it was late coming out today.

 

[Batterytraveller]

ABC reporting

Clive Palmer says he will challenge WA's vaccine border requirement​

Queensland businessman Clive Palmer claims Western Australia's border vaccine requirements are unconstitutional, and says he will launch a High Court challenge.

Western Australia will tomorrow designate New South Wales a high-risk state.

It will require anyone entering WA from there to show proof of at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccination.

In a statement released by his United Australia Party, Mr Palmer claims that is in breach of section 117 of the constitution and discriminates against the people of New South Wales.

The former federal MP says he will start High Court proceedings within the next 14 days against Premier Mark McGowan and the WA Government.

In November last year, Mr Palmer lost a High Court challenge against Western Australia's coronavirus border closures.

I know it’s good to have a hobby but I’m not sure I’d pick repeatedly losing to the WA government in court over stamp collecting.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

The daily report is in a new format. See HERE

The new layout is probably why it was late coming out today.

View attachment 255760

View attachment 255761

There is some Astra Zeneca and Pfizer data as well, indigenous information (though no %).

 

[Flying mermaid]

C

The daily report is in a new format. See HERE

The new layout is probably why it was late coming out today.

View attachment 255760

View attachment 255761

they are now sourcing information from the Australian Immunisation Register - seems to have resulted in Victoria losing some vaccinations! Or maybe just not updated yet.

 

[OZDUCK]

I was just writing this post about the numbers seeming odd to me as well. According to those figures Queensland and WA both administered more doses than Victoria yesterday. So have the Victorian doses been 'overcounted' previously or the other states 'undercounted'? Or are they just not accurate?

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

C

they are now sourcing information from the Australian Immunisation Register - seems to have resulted in Victoria losing some vaccinations! Or maybe just not updated yet.

Possibly - but there has been increases in both of Victoria's first and second dose. May be cross border people???

 

[Flying mermaid]

Possibly - but there has been increases in both of Victoria's first and second dose. May be cross border people???

Don’t know - just going on a tweet from the Covid Live guy that the daily update is now using the AIR as a source for the figures and that has resulted in some changes.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

- seems to have resulted in Victoria losing some vaccinations! Or maybe just not updated yet.

Or they have done a data correction, or just stuffed up in the change.

Vic State Hubs delivered 19,880 yesterday and GP/Pharmacies would have done some. But today's report only has a total of 9,993 for Vic.

So something is adrift.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Don’t know - just going on a tweet from the Covid Live guy that the daily update is now using the AIR as a source for the figures and that has resulted in some changes.

Or they have done a data correction, or just stuffed up in the change.

Vic State Hubs delivered 19,880 yesterday and GP/Pharmacies would have done some. But today's report only has a total of 9,993 for Vic.

So something is adrift.

There has been some level of exodus from Vic to Qld.......don't think it would amount to more than 10,000 people.

 

[Flying mermaid]

I saw somewhere (and don’t ask me where - on one of the new graphics) that some of the information held by the AIR is incomplete as to state of residence - so that might account for some of the “lost” people

Edit
it’s a mess - up the front it says ACT is 356,518. Further down for 16+ It’s 290,000

 

[JB expat]

People also need to check their data in Medicare online. My first dose wasn't recorded and I had to call the clinic. A friend & her husband who got their doses at one of the main hubs also had a stuff up with the recording of their vaccines that took many phone calls and days to correct. Note that all of the errors that I've been told about were about failures to record a vaccine rather than recording a phantom vaccine.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

I saw somewhere (and don’t ask me where - on one of the new graphics) that some of the information held by the AIR is incomplete as to state of residence - so that might account for some of the “lost” people

Edit
it’s a mess - up the front it says ACT is 356,518. Further down for 16+ It’s 290,000

So we can just look at tomorrow's. They might not have married up the data inputs correctly.

Looks all pretty though