Skirmishes over efficacy and Covid strains is encouraging vaccine hesitancy
People need to overcome their hesitancy for everyone’s sake.
Vaccinations
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.
PM may be unable to dodge this bullet
After rightfully escaping blame for last year’s deadly Covid epidemic in Victoria’s aged care system, the latest outbreak poses a much greater political threat.
We should give Pfizer jabs where they do most good
Our readers are strongly engaged with the vaccination and quarantine issues facing the nation.
Lockdown rush for Covid-19 vaccines
Victoria is the first state to administer more than 40,000 vaccines in a day as take-up rates accelerate in the wake of a crushing seven-day lockdown.
Victimising vaccine-hesitant won’t work
Harangue them your hardest, sneer at them – even threaten to curtail their rights – but you will achieve nothing, other than exacerbate the problem.
Getting to the pointy end of Aussie vaccine hesitancy
Base politics got in the way of the most sensible solution to the ravages of Covid-19: vaccination of as many Australians as possible, as soon as possible.
Stop playing politics and get everyone aboard the vaccine train
It’s wrong to blame over 50s for being concerned about Covid vaccinations — an advertising campaign is desperately needed
To jab or not to jab, the question of our endless debate
The suggestion that vaccination will reopen our borders and save lives is clearly not convincing many Australians to get the jab.
The fresh dangers of Fortress Australia
COVID success now threatens our economic recovery in race the Morrison government pretends is not happening.
Middle East conflict reminds us all of the need to live and let live
The Middle East conflict continues to draw comment from readers, but vaccines are also top of mind for many.
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