Morrison vaccine rollout collapses entirely

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Well, it was a bad time if not a long time:

  • Three-quarters of NSW health worker’s appointments for vaccination have been cancelled.
  • The AZ announcement is largely to blame.

I imagine the cancellation rate will be just as high in the community, if not higher given the higher vaccine hesitancy.

Now that everybody plus the drover’s dog is going to wait for the Pfizer version, which will only dribble in until Q4 when another 20m doses are supposed to arrive, but there’s “no guarantee” that they will, we’re very likely going to slip even further backwards versus developed markets if not emerging:

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. 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.