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Vaccinations
Our knack of reckoning risk needs an urgent booster
That people need the urging of the nation’s leading medical professionals to get vaccinated with AstraZeneca is deplorable.
Delta’s pall drapes nation as 15m in lockdown
Australia has suffered its worst day dealing with the pandemic in a year as the Delta variant leaks across state borders.
Unions slam compulsory vaccine push
Unions have hit out at SPC for demanding all workers are vaccinated against Covid, as employer groups urge Canberra to set standards on mandatory jabs.
Misinformation blamed for low vaccine uptake
Covid misinformation is driving vaccine hesitancy and mistrust across Sydney’s southwest, according to community leaders and local doctors.
Victoria enters its sixth lockdown
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has announced a seven-day lockdown from 8pm amid eight new cases; record 262 cases in NSW.
Expert advice every Aussie must listen to
Fourteen of the nation’s leading medical experts – including Nick Coatsworth and Ian Frazer – call on all adults to get any vaccine they can | READ THEIR OPEN LETTER
SPC mandates Covid vaccine for all staff
Fruit and vegetable processor SPC has become the first Australian firm outside healthcare to demand its staff be vaccinated.
Plan B to target the reluctant
Targeted ad campaigns and incentive programs for groups of vaccine hesitant Australians will be rolled out if the nation stalls on its plan.
Vaccine hesitancy rife among Year 12s
The Berejiklian government’s vaccination push for Year 12 students is in danger of being derailed by high levels of vaccination hesitancy among the cohort.
National vax rates revealed: Is your area safe?
Vaccination coverage is split along socio-economic lines, with new data showing the poorest areas have markedly lower numbers.
Vaccines for under 40s ‘by next month’
Despite Doherty strategy for inoculating young people, Lieutenant-General John Frewen says mRNA supplies are not yet available.
Incentives or bribes? How best to jab the nation
We need to follow world’s best practice on how to best fight Covid-19 and all tiers of government provide a united front.
Stadium carparks to be drive-through jab hubs
Carparks at sports stadiums could be turned into drive-through vaccine hubs as early as next month.
Reluctant Young flags AstraZeneca rethink
Queensland chief health officer Jeannette Young has acknowledged that ‘now is the time’ for under-60s to consider getting the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Young’s AZ stance is dangerous
You have to work damn hard to find an infectious diseases specialist (which the Queensland CHO is not by the way) willing to back up Jeannette Young.
Why it’s important to remember ‘we’re all in this together’
As Scott Morrison now concedes, we must all get vaccinated to escape these lockdowns – a cure worse than the disease
Kids to get jab as crisis grows
Vulnerable children will be offered the Covid vaccine under revised medical advice to the federal government.
Young won’t back away from AZ warning for under 60s
Epidemiologists and commonwealth officials have repudiated Queensland chief health officer’s repeated comments discouraging young people from having the AstraZeneca vaccine.
‘Freedom incentives’ to spur vaccine
Scott Morrison is likely to prioritise non-financial incentives under the national cabinet’s four-phase reopening plan.
Original URL: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/topics/vaccinations/page/107