The COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Australia has begun

[Pushka]

Why they would want arguably an inferior vaccine especially for their age group I’m confused…. But whatever gets the all important percentage across the line I could care less if these hesi-vax-idiots get injected with saline, as long as our life gets back to normal

Humans are weird. Deny them something and that's the only one they want. People in their sixties can be very grumpy and belligerent. 'why can't I choose'. I can say that because I sit in that group

 

[Seat0B]

For purely mischievous purposes and totally apolitical, there is this;

Hacking Kelly: how to let Craig Kelly, spammer, know how you feel

Craig Kelly is a spammer. So it's time to give him a dose of his own completely unscientifically-based, internet-sourced bad medicine.

www.crikey.com.au

Love it!!!

 

[burmans]

For purely mischievous purposes and totally apolitical, there is this;

Hacking Kelly: how to let Craig Kelly, spammer, know how you feel

Craig Kelly is a spammer. So it's time to give him a dose of his own completely unscientifically-based, internet-sourced bad medicine.

www.crikey.com.au

Personally I don’t regard this as mischievous at all, I’ve sent multiple requests to desist. If they continue to spam then bring it on, let’s slam them, I’ve had enough of being nice with these morons.

 

[drron]

I feel left out/right out.Craig hasn't bothered to cal me.

 

[jonboixxx]

Personally I don’t regard this as mischievous at all, I’ve sent multiple requests to desist. If they continue to spam then bring it on, let’s slam them, I’ve had enough of being nice with these morons.

My comments here are nuanced these days, as I've been benched by the coaches too many times. Apparently AEC and ACMA can't act, but I have, numerous times. The spam is indiscriminate; he spams my under voting age son with their vaccination misinformation. That can't be right!

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Moderna bookings about to open

While that is good news with respect to Vic I am really, really, hoping that the Commonwealth does not use the first few weeks of Moderna on people who will be less beneficial in helping to control the current Victorian outbreak. They have been requested to focus on the hotpot suburbs.

It really as a priority needs to go to the 18-29 (39) year olds in the Northern and Western Hotspot locations. That is where the cases mainly are, it is where the vaccination rates are the lowest (in part die those suburbs having a lot of people who are under 39) and that is the cohort which is most active in spreading it due to the type of work they tend to do in those suburbs. They also tend to seed it elsewhere as many are in jobs that have them moving about Melbourne.

Unfortunately the Commonwealth approved pharmacies (and GPs) are as yet very low in the hotspot areas. Which has not at all helped with AZ either.

So at least in Vic I am hoping that they initially do not open up Moderna statewide to 12+ bookings. Right now getting a lot of 12-16 year olds vaccinated, and especially if they are not living in the hotspot suburbs, will make their parents happier, but it will have minimal value in helping to slow down transmission.

(Note another 700 Pharmacists will be added over the next month, and also note that at present 50% of State Hubs doses are being reserved for those living in the hotspot suburbs).

There will be huge demand for Moderna when it opens. Recently when Pfizer opened for 18-29 year olds in Victoria that they received one million calls trying to book the limited supply available, with most missing out.

 

[Princess Fiona]

More good news. Sotrovimab has been approved by the TGA. Available for distribution next week.

TGA approves new COVID-19 treatment for use in Australia

Australians with COVID-19 who are at risk of hospitalisation will now have access to an additional antibody treatment, as the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) announced today it has granted provisional approval for sotrovimab to be used in Australia.

www.health.gov.au

This is an interesting drug. We have it in the national stockpile and it’s been distributed fairly widely. Used quite a bit in the current Western/Southwestern Sydney outbreak.
It’s a one off infusion given within the first 5 days of mild infection to the cohort that is at risk of severe disease/ death. (Diabetes, COPD, Chronic Renal Failure, Aboriginal, over 55 etc etc)
The interim trial data showed an 85% reduction to progression to severe disease.
Will see how it pans out in NSW, results here will be predicated on supply and the approvals process (it must be done on an individual patient usage basis).

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Not that it was in doubt in recent times, but NSW just announced as passing 8m jabs.

 

[mviy]

Not that it was in doubt in recent times, but NSW just announced as passing 8m jabs.

Well with Thursday's numbers released yesterday they were less than 2,500 jabs under 8m according to health.gov.au, so that was an absolute certainty.

 

[jase05]

Meanwhile in QLD

Queensland police officers mount legal challenge to Covid-19 vaccine mandate

A “concerned” group of Queensland Police officers and their families have banded together in a legal challenge to a Covid vaccination mandate for all staff and officers in the force.

www.news.com.au

 

[mviy]

Over 2/3 of 16+ (66.93%) have had their first dose.

Over 70% (70.25%) of 70+ are fully vaccinated.

70.3% of 40-44 have had their first dose. Only 45-49 (69.6%) is yet to go above 70% for the 40+ age groups.

45-49 has reached 49.9% fully vaccinated and surely will be he first under 50 age group to go past 50%.

As expected VIC has gone past 65% first dose (65.46%) and 40% fully vaccinated (40.46%). SA also went past 40% fully vaccinated (40.09%).

VIC went past 70% fully vaccinated for 70+.

NSW should reach 80% first dose early next week.

 

[Pom-DownUnder]

bit of a come back to the green

 

[justinbrett]

bit of a come back to the green

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Seems most of the dips were from NSW state administered early in the week - but looks like it's slowly edging back to where it was. We were on trend to get 80% by today but we've got a few more days yet (but close at 78.1%).

1st & 2nd doses have definitely flipped in NSW, it was about 2/3 going to first until recently, now the majority is 2nd doses, which is logical.

 

[mviy]

I suspect NSW may get to 80% when Monday's numbers are released on Tuesday or possibly the day after if the weekend numbers are poor.

The flipping from 1st to 2nd doses is why getting the first dose number up quickly is so important. The 9 week gap on some of these 7 day average estimates for VIC between hitting 1st and 2nd dose targets seem overly long when with sufficient supply as 1st dose demand drops off the gap between doses can be brought back down to 3 weeks.

If NSW wants to get to 80% fully vaccinated as soon as possible they'd be looking for ways to bring forward 2nd doses whether that's through automated messages letting people know they can bring forward their appointment or getting staff to call people up and do it that way.

 

[jakeseven7]

Better very late than never. This is much better.

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First things first: new COVID vaccine ad campaign launches​

The push to get millions more COVID-19 jabs into Australian arms will enter a new phase from Sunday, with a fresh advertising blitz launching across the country.

Dubbed First Things First, the campaign highlights the freedoms that vaccinated Australians will enjoy once the 70 and then 80 per cent vaccination targets set out in the national plan to begin re-opening the country are reached.

First things first: new COVID vaccine ad campaign launches

As Australia’s vaccination roll out gathers pace, a new ad campaign targeting younger people will be launched on Sunday.

www.theage.com.au

 

[mviy]

“A three-week vaccine blitz targeting Melbourne’s northern and western suburbs will start on Monday, with the Commonwealth to send several hundred thousand extra Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 jabs to GPs, pharmacies and state-run hubs.”

Three-week COVID-19 jab blitz to target Melbourne’s north and west

Melbourne’s hard-hit western and northern suburbs will get a major boost in the race to put vaccines in arms, with a blitz of Pfizer and Moderna jabs.

www.theage.com.au

 

[jakeseven7]

“A three-week vaccine blitz targeting Melbourne’s northern and western suburbs will start on Monday, with the Commonwealth to send several hundred thousand extra Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 jabs to GPs, pharmacies and state-run hubs.”

Three-week COVID-19 jab blitz to target Melbourne’s north and west

Melbourne’s hard-hit western and northern suburbs will get a major boost in the race to put vaccines in arms, with a blitz of Pfizer and Moderna jabs.

www.theage.com.au

Looks like the egg and spoon attack worked

 

[lovetravellingoz]

“A three-week vaccine blitz targeting Melbourne’s northern and western suburbs will start on Monday, with the Commonwealth to send several hundred thousand extra Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 jabs to GPs, pharmacies and state-run hubs.”

Three-week COVID-19 jab blitz to target Melbourne’s north and west

Melbourne’s hard-hit western and northern suburbs will get a major boost in the race to put vaccines in arms, with a blitz of Pfizer and Moderna jabs.

www.theage.com.au

Are they actually extra or are they just what was already in train which was more doses from supply to Australia having increased? The article only seems to be referring to the already announced Pfizer increase (UK+Singapore+ larger already contracted Pfizer) and Moderna Doses.

So yes extra compared to what had been arriving in Victoria, but that still only seems to be pro-rata of what are increasing extra doses arriving in Australia.

Looks like the egg and spoon attack worked

Has it?

General Frewen had previously stated that the jurisdictions including Victoria that had received less through the Primary Care Channel would have this made good. But I am yet to see any firm numbers on what "make-good" doses will arrive and when.

The two Commonwealth channels still only going at a snail's pace in Vic. New GP's only get added in the coming week, and the relatively low number of Pharmacists is only now increasing over the next 4 weeks.

Yesterday in the Commonwealth Aged Care and Disability Channel of the 10,387 doses delivered nationally only 1,270 doses were delivered in Victoria (12%). That is well under pro-rata. Since 1st August of the 323,581 doses delivered in this channel only 26,777 (8%) were in Victoria. So that channel still remains well under pro-rata. Overall Vic in this channel now sits at 19%, which is well under pro-rata.


What the article did confirm was that the Commonwealth through its channel was not directing the doses to where they would have the most benefit (see below), and so hopefully this will now change:

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Cases have surged in Local Government Areas in Melbourne’s north and west such as Hume (652 active cases) and Wyndham (209 active cases) in the past week, but according to Commonwealth data reported to the Victorian Department of Health these areas are receiving fewer Pfizer doses for GP clinics than Melbourne’s more affluent eastern and southern suburbs.​

A total of 2370 Pfizer doses were sent to GP clinics in Hume and 2400 doses were sent to Wyndham in the last week. The nearby LGA of Moonee Valley (45 active cases) received 2400 doses too. These three LGAs are primarily within federal Labor-held electorates.​

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In comparison, Casey (41 active cases), Boroondara (9), Knox (18), Whitehorse (5), Monash (13) and Stonnington (23) all received more Pfizer doses at their GP clinics – from 3210 up to 5010 in the largest LGA, Casey – in the same time period despite having fewer cases. ​

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The hotspot locations are not all new, and are also pretty much the same locations as in the Vic Second Wave.

So last week the Commonwealth was actually increasing doses in relatively very safe suburbs like I live in rather than in the suburbs where Covid is spreading the fastest.

 

[Lynda2475]

the campaign highlights the freedoms that vaccinated Australians will enjoy

So basically taking a leaf out of the strategy of the NSW adverts which have been highlighting freedoms and a return to normal as the reason to vaccinate for over a month now.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Are they actually extra or are they just what was already in train which was more doses from supply to Australia having increased? The article only seems to be referring to the already announced Pfizer increase (UK+Singapore+ larger already contracted Pfizer) and Moderna Doses.

So yes extra compared to what had been arriving in Victoria, but that still only seems to be pro-rata of what are increasing extra doses arriving in Australia.






Has it?

General Frewen had previously stated that the jurisdictions including Victoria that had received less through the Primary Care Channel would have this made good. But I am yet to see any firm numbers on what "make-good" doses will arrive and when.

The two Commonwealth channels still only going at a snail's pace in Vic. New GP's only get added in the coming week, and the relatively low number of Pharmacists is only now increasing over the next 4 weeks.

Yesterday in the Commonwealth Aged Care and Disability Channel of the 10,387 doses delivered nationally only 1,270 doses were delivered in Victoria (12%). That is well under pro-rata. Since 1st August of the 323,581 doses delivered in this channel only 26,777 (8%) were in Victoria. So that channel still remains well under pro-rata. Overall Vic in this channel now sits at 19%, which is well under pro-rata.


What the article did confirm was that the Commonwealth through its channel was not directing the doses to where they would have the most benefit (see below), and so hopefully this will now change:

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Cases have surged in Local Government Areas in Melbourne’s north and west such as Hume (652 active cases) and Wyndham (209 active cases) in the past week, but according to Commonwealth data reported to the Victorian Department of Health these areas are receiving fewer Pfizer doses for GP clinics than Melbourne’s more affluent eastern and southern suburbs.​

A total of 2370 Pfizer doses were sent to GP clinics in Hume and 2400 doses were sent to Wyndham in the last week. The nearby LGA of Moonee Valley (45 active cases) received 2400 doses too. These three LGAs are primarily within federal Labor-held electorates.​

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In comparison, Casey (41 active cases), Boroondara (9), Knox (18), Whitehorse (5), Monash (13) and Stonnington (23) all received more Pfizer doses at their GP clinics – from 3210 up to 5010 in the largest LGA, Casey – in the same time period despite having fewer cases. ​

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The hotspot locations are not all new, and are also pretty much the same locations as in the Vic Second Wave.

So last week the Commonwealth was actually increasing doses in relatively very safe suburbs like I live in rather than in the suburbs where Covid is spreading the fastest.

Evidently Scott Morrison has just now announced extra doses for national use. Arriving next weekend.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison announces 1 million more doses of Moderna​

He said the EU would be sending an additional million doses of the vaccine to arrive next weekend.​

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He also indicated that an "additional" 400,000 of Pfizer and Moderna would go to Victoria in September as part the 3 week Blitz announced by the Vic Gov this morning. Dan Andrews at the Vic Presser today stated that that those doses were not in the program that he had just announced, and so would be in addition to it ( The PM's announcement was after the Vic Announcement).

General Frewen will evidently release details on this this afternoon.



Part of what was announced at the Vic Presser this morning on the 3 week push in Victoria was:

New pop-up vaccination sites confirmed across Victoria ​

There will be new pop-up vaccination hubs opening up across Victoria, targeting 100 priority postcodes. ​

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Using supply secured through agreements with Singapore and the UK, there will be five new community-based pop-ups and eight school-based pop-ups with more to open soon. ​

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Daniel Andrews says: "It's just removing another barrier, taking the vaccinations to you as it were," ​

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The school-based pop-ups will be available to students, families of students as well as teachers and school staff. ​

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As mentioned above the PM's announcement just now will supplement the Singapore and UK doses. By how much will depend on what Frewen actually detail's later today.

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