Mixed jab messages confuse everyone
The commonwealth hasn’t adequately explained the change in policy on AstraZeneca and it’s time it did.
Vaccinations
Vaccination woes keep on coming as mixed messages test our trust
Readers lament the slow vaccination roll-out, and respond to our stories on the Wuhan lab controversy.
Glacial speed of our vaccination rollout a disgrace
Although plenty of members of our state and federal parliaments appear to have been lucky enough to have had a jab, a very small percentage of ordinary Australians are so fortunate.
Is the vaccine rollout designed to be slow?
Greg Hunt says 27 per cent of Australians have had at least one jab. It’s not much of a boast. But the rates set up vaccination as a new point of political division.
PM needs a jab on vaccine rollout
The federal government is losing credibility with its management of the vaccine rollout and its repeated claims everything is on track. We need greater confidence in the future and more competence in delivery.
Big questions over vaccine strategy
Governments need to explain the endgame embracing a multi-faceted Covid plan of action to combat the virus
Annastacia’s jab and truth serum gone to the dogs
Don’t blame podium-loving Palaszczuk for exacerbating the problem of over-50s holding out for the Pfizer vaccine. That fault lies solely with Winton.
Why 2021 might just be an election year
The wisdom of late has been that the PM will wait until next year to head to the polls. But the political climate is more complicated than that.
Lockdowns coupled with a poor sell on vaccines
Plus intimidating police to boot.
Skirmishes over efficacy and Covid strains is encouraging vaccine hesitancy
People need to overcome their hesitancy for everyone’s sake.
Time to start thinking about a date to reopen nation
We need to make sure the vulnerable are 100 per cent vaccinated and then let it rip through the remainder of the population who remain unvaccinated.
Pollies asleep at wheel on Covid challenges
Politicians should focus more on public policy and less on public relations.
Arrival of potent Delta mutation raises stakes
Despite our globally enviable low Covid-19 case numbers, Australia remains extraordinarily susceptible to the variant. There is good and bad news for us.
Don’t think this means freedom
The Indian variant shows us we are only as safe as the least-safe country — and that should ring alarm bells for our leaders.
Ethnic groups out in the cold
Australia’s multicultural communities are calling on governments to bolster their information campaigns surrounding the Covid-19 jab.
Rolling up in droves: the country with zero vaccine hesitancy
Just six per cent of people in the UK are reluctant to be vaccinated. In Australia, it’s more like 25 per cent. What are we getting so wrong?
Health union blasts rollout ‘debacle’
A second nursing home resident has tested positive for Covid-19 as the Morrison government again came under intense pressure.
If things weren’t so serious in Victoria they’d be comical
The rapid rate of Covid-19 vaccine uptake has demonstrated that personal choice is a major factor in holding the rollout back.
Race talk a non-starter unless you’re the OECD
It’s the existential question of our Covid time — when is a (vaccine) race not a (vaccine) race? And if it’s not a (vaccine) race, what (vaccine) race is it not?
UK jabs give false sense of safety
Vaccination success is giving Britons a ‘false sense of security’ in the battle against the Indian variant, a leading scientist has said.
Original URL: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/topics/vaccinations/page/112