lovetravellingoz
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Yes, but what's the point you're trying to make?
Improving access assists in maximising vaccinations.
Yes, but what's the point you're trying to make?
Improving access assists in maximising vaccinations.
I think just more vaccines generally would be a good thing, and who gives a hoot where they go as long as they can be accessed.So you're saying Victoria should open more places for GPs and pharmacies?
My understanding is that the existing national plan is to have Moderna go to pharmacies and to increase Pfizer availability at GPs and mass vaccination hubs as supply improves.
I think just more vaccines generally would be a good thing, and who gives a hoot where they go as long as they can be accessed.
There are two groups in this country worrying about utilisation data, they are bureaucrats in Canberra and about three people in this thread...
Why would you line up for an hour at a hub
LoL you have an appointment at the hub, you dont line up for an hour (unless you arrive early). Wait time for my first jab at Olympic Park was 25mins only because i was 20mins early. Second dose I was also early but waived straight in i.e. no wait.
Sutton has been constant in regards to AZ, pity not all of the CHO’s are on the same page
There were promising signs, Professor Sutton added, that while access to the Pfizer vaccine was increasing in Victoria, the AstraZeneca vaccine was proving more effective than had previously been understood.
“There are signs that the immunity that you get from AstraZeneca might even be more long-lasting than Pfizer, and that it will outperform Pfizer six months after getting vaccinated,” he said.
So you're saying Victoria should open more places for GPs and pharmacies?
Yes there should be more "open" as you call it.
However it is purely the Commonwealth Government that approves GPs and Pharmacists to "open" as a vaccination facility, and what vaccines they can use, and the quantity that they get allocated.
So Victoria cannot " open more places for GPs and pharmacies". The Feds can.
I too want us to get to the vaccine targets as soon as possible with whichever vaccine mix achieves that. Obviously both AZ and Pfizer have played their part in getting us to where we are today.
My understanding is that it was an application process, those GPs and pharmacies apply to join the federal scheme. The government doesn't just randomly call them.
Pfizer is a different story as VIC is probably has enough distribution channels for that.
Dunno if I'd be so gung-ho on Moderna turning up. Not in the quantities ordered anyway. Nothing is guaranteed.
Moderna vaccines in August cut short due to supply glitch
Korea got less than 5 percent of the needed Moderna vaccines for August vaccinations, after glitches in the Moderna supply in Europe has had a cascading effect on the schedule of vaccine supplies in Korea. The glitch goes back to Julyâ¦koreajoongangdaily.joins.com
Thought this might be a mistranslation, but it’s just a mischaracterization of the article. Not shown to be contaminated as of now.two people have died after receiving contaminated Moderna in Japan
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My understanding is that it was an application process, those GPs and pharmacies apply to join the federal scheme. The government doesn't just randomly call them.
There's no shortage of AZ so I can't see why the federal government wouldn't approve anyone who applied. Pfizer is a different story as VIC is probably has enough distribution channels for that.
Yes GPs have to apply, and if you speak to one who has been through the process as I have it is not just a matter of providing your name and address. Just like building new quarantine facilities, they must demonstrate they can meet the standards.There are GPs and Pharmacists who have either been knocked back to date, or in the case of the chains (many of them national and so there is no reason why the Feds should knock them back as they have more stores vaccinating in other states) not permitted to have more stores participate. Some are also restricted in terms of doses.
Pharmacies were also only recently added in Victoria.
The Western and Northern Suburbs of Melbourne (which is where the bulk of current cases live) is under represented in approved GP's and Pharmacies. To improve supply to one GP Clinic in that region the State Government has agreed to divert some supply to them to demonstrate in a trial that that clinic at the Western Oval can service the needs of the local ethnic community there. The clinic is a collaboration of a number of different practices who service local ethnic communities.
These are also the same locations where vaccinations rates are lowest in Victoria. Though this is part due to the average age being lower in those regions.
Mid Sept is not far away now, and so they need to get a wriggle on as Moderna starts to arrive then and needs to be deployed.