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COVID-19 vaccine no cure for pandemic mania

The nation’s politicians have damned their own efforts through their entirely overwrought response to a foreseeable vaccine overdosing.

Myriam RobinSenior writer

Feb 28, 2021 – 11.03pm

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A year on from the start of the coronavirus pandemic, it’s clear one of the side effects is mass hysteria. And not even the rollout of the vaccine has conferred any sort of immunity.

Last week, a doctor working for Healthcare Australia failed to do his training, then stuffed up the instructions on the multi-dose vaccine vial, administering a wasteful but entirely non-harmful dose to two elderly patients (in an error so foreseeable the vaccine’s creators tested for it).

Myriam Robin is a senior writer based in the Melbourne newsroom. She has previously been a Rear Window columnist and editor, and before that reported on financial markets and media.