Lordy, Canada has banned the use of Scott Morrison’s politically-connected Astra Zeneca vaccine for under 55s. Now Germany has done so for over 60s!
- The German health regulator has recommended the ban after data on the thrombosis side-effects.
- Four Germans states have found new cases of thrombosis.
The cases still appear to rare and linked with previous conditions but they are increasing in frequency relative to the number of vaccinated.
Australia does not have the luxury of pausing the rollout because the Morrison Government went all-in on just one politically-connected pharmaceutical company instead of getting a spread of vaccines that included Moderna and Pfizer. Poor risk management and procurement policy.
Except for health workers and the PM who reserved a shot of Pfizer for himself.
Meanwhile, the heat on the Morrison rollout is also intensifying from its own side of the aisle. The IPA is not happy:
- Oodles of the vaccine but Morrison distribution is useless.
- The Morrison booking system is a joke, bringing on the IT partner a month ago.
- GPs are out of pocket with no way to reclaim expenses.
- Punters are being vaccinated by health care workers that are not.
- We need transparency to figure out the bottlenecks.
Good luck with that. This Government buries bad news like dead bodies.
And so, we fall ever further behind our own gutted targets:
If at first you don’t succeed, lower your expectations. Then again.
And don’t even mention versus the rest of the world:
The new Brisbane lockdown is just the latest millions up in smoke. It is already billions and will be tens of billions in waste before the Morrison Government vaccine failure is concluded.
He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.
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Morrison buys another useless 20m Pfizer doses
Desperate to appear to be doing something, as
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This is something that I just can't understand.
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According to this 500k Aussies are back in less than year
So more population without the immigration (another explanation for boom house prices) and of course harder roll out of vaccine https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/health-safety/australians-stranded-oversees-take-frustrations-to-united-nations-lobby-the-governments-extreme-restrictions/news-story/135fc1372aff108a8cf6e8f872583fb3
NSW is bearing the brunt of the quarantine burden. We should put returning citizens of NSW at the top of the list. Returning Victorians should go to the bottom of the queue and ask Dan Andrews why.
Im from Queensland. NSW can go to hell and die for all I care. Your the most corrupt state in Australia and deserve everything you get.
While your at it, take your drugs back. Queenslands sick of your crime.
Mathias, whilst your sentiment towards the cockroaches is entirely understandable and acceptable when it comes to rugby league … mate, it’s a sport, a bit of escapist fun. For reality I suggest you cogitate on what Bubbly says in the post just below this one.
Gordon
You do realise we are all Australians don’t you?
Pitching state against state is a retrograde attitude. Also quarantine has been the responsibility of the Federal government since 1907 and the days of cholera ships. The Fed LNP should have build proper facilities in the last year, so don’t blame the states, it was never their area of control.
The focus needs to be on getting the vaccine rolled out.
It you want to place blame, put it on the Federal government, who have only managed to roll out 15% of the 4,000,000 doses they said they would by the end of March.
Yet, in the Covid hotspot of Byron Bay the big BluesFest is going ahead. 50,000 visitors expected over the Easter weekend.
This is much more of a worry than the hospital outbreak in Brisbane. Timing couldn’t be worse when you consider the infectious phase and incubation period of the new variants is really 3 weeks. They will disperse back all over Australia just in time for the cooler weather. Perfect !
Have you ever noticed Queensland does just fine on its own until Southerns get involved?
Where do you think that Covid came from.
Closing the borders. Best thing we could ever have done. Now Southerners can stay in there own damn state and fix there own problems.
No festival now !
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-31/byron-bay-bluesfest-2021-cancelled-after-covid-case-found/100041870?utm_source=abc_news_web&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=abc_news_web
Mr Hawaii can’t arrange the vaccine roll out , doesn’t take responsibility for quarantine (FED responsibility), can’t arrange to get stranded Aussie’s home so now they complaint to the UN about a human rights violation to try to get action, the building of our submarines contract is a farce and to top it off the clown announces this :
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-31/government-weapons-facility-guided-missiles-made-in-australia/100039990?utm_source=abc_news_web&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=abc_news_web
The clown will probably get the computer chips to run them from Ch!na just like the Yanks did for the F35’s that they sold to Australia.
How much more can the Australian people take of this rubbish.
Rant over.
Too busy being rapey in parliament.
Wait till some of the blokes supporting morrison also get covid and realise the vaccination rollout could have saved them the hassle…
I supsect they’re all too busy at the STI clinic to worry about any covid vacines right now….
You are kinda harsh with them, at this rate we will all be vaccinated by 2030 (not kidding), all good
Faster than equal pay for women. Who says SloMo can’t deliver?!
Canada has not banned the use of astra Zeneca in under 55s. The national vaccine committee has recommended a pause in the roll out for under 55s while they examine the data https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/news/2021/03/use-of-astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine.html
You don’t come to Macrovirus for measured , insightful commentary. They have been dreadful in all things virus. No reason to stop with the vaccine. And when you have got no clue, double down!
4m vaccines target.
600k achieved.
15% completion.
Way. To. Go.
Just as well we’ve stopped the boosts and the planes and our population isn’t growing hey?
Oh wait… Oops.
Any optimism about any capability to do anything except fck up is unwarranted in Straya these days.
I’m so over Aussie incompetence
We will need 50,000,000 (two per person), 1.2% completion
31 people out of 2.7 million vaccinated in Germany have thrombosis issues. That’s 0.00114%
Germany’s Covid death rate is 2.7%
Does it seem strange that Germany (which produces the Pfizer vaccine) is banning AZ based on that?
Some very young/healthy got thrombosis issues, not everyone get covid and it basically only kills the very old/ very fat/unhealthy.