bensyd

And now they think they can do this and under-50s will willingly get vaccinated having being told a couple of months ago of blood clots for under 50s. It's chaotic.

https://www.afr.com/politics/federal...0210528-p57vya

LHR/MEL/Europe FF

That almost sounds like some of the symptoms of clotting? I would have been at the hospital by now!

nancypants

ah I dunno that it’s that bad, I certainly don’t have a cerebral sinus thrombosis. I suspect a lot of it is a function of the miserable fever!!

exp

3 days of high fevers? That doesn't sound normal, may want to check with a doctor.

bensyd

In more positive news, Australia hit 124k daily vaccinations on Friday and 121k yesterday.

Mwenenzi

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-...llout/13197518

bensyd

Also

https://www.covid19data.com.au/

Which I've used as my primary data since the start of the pandemic.

nancypants

apparently within the realms of normality- you have been warned! 😉

HB7

While 100k vaccinations a day is good, is there any sense that Australia can increase that to 200k+ a day soon? If that is possible and sustainable for the next 6 months, all adults can be done in 2021.

Cathay1101

Sorry, but I don't find 100k a day impressive by any stretch whatsoever. The UK is doing six or seven times that and, as I've said upthread, organised the programme alongside its shambolic attempt at viral containment (lockdowns weeks too late which verged on pointless in preventing fatalities and hospitalisations, because the virus had already spread to the vulnerable by the time they were introduced. Three times.) Adjusted for the population differential, Australia still is barely chugging along at half the rate and had zero cases to contend with for most of that time. People may not support reopening the borders and I understand that, but surely they realise that every day the borders are shut is costing the country millions and that a rapid roll-out is in their financial interests just as much as it is the resumption of international travel...

HB7

I agree that it is shambolic, but if they double it to over 200k, they'll be close to what the UK is averaging on a per capita basis - even though Australia should be aiming for higher than that since they are so far behind. I know Pfizer supply is low, but what on earth is going on with CSL and they're supposed manufacture of 1 million per week AZ?

Is the government awake? If they want to avoid any more lockdowns, they really need to kick this into gear.

exp

The whole Pacific region is behind.

Japan will probably try to acquire a lot of supplies and then you have the smaller Asian nations which are also very low in vaccinations completed.

So these countries may be competing for supplies to be shipped to them, particularly of the mRNA vaccines.

I saw a commercial for a vaccination campaign in China. Now they're pushing 3rd doses of the Sinopharm vaccine there because it has such low efficacy. If China should admit their vaccines just aren't good, imagine if they and all their vaccine diplomacy clients like the Philippines all try to get Western vaccines at once.

bensyd

Yes that can happen. CSL/Pfizer are delivering ~1.35m doses/week. I'd expect the Pfizer supply to increase in the coming months and Moderna and Novovax will also start arriving.

HB7

Hopefully it happens soon, so then maybe fully vaccinated Aussies overseas can come home to visit their family without having to pay 3.5k to sit in a hotel room for 2 weeks.

nancypants

not sure about elsewhere but certainly locally we have a fair amount of AZ sitting unused as people don’t want it, or are in the Pfizer age group but not called yet and the existing protocols don’t address well under 50s who don’t mind having AZ


unfortunately this is a lot of what the 3rd world is using to vaccinate and it’s complete junk