There is no modelling anywhere that suggests “6 million jabs” should trigger any easing of restrictions.
High vaccination rates are just the starting point on a pathway out of COVID. But in our race to find a new normal,we must not jump the gun by reducing restrictions too soon.
Aged Australians cannot afford to wait around for the Pfizer vaccine. The AstraZeneca vaccine available to them now is not only safe but an effective protection against the much more immediate threat - COVID-19.
If you don’t want to be vaccinated look for another job.
Given the fragility of our control of the pandemic at the moment,we should be embracing all known risk-reduction tactics.
A leading professor of medicine fears the most extensive review of Medicare ever conducted will end up in the same place as earlier attempts - in the too-hard basket.
Claims that a second lockdown may be worse for people's health than COVID-19 are false:this virus can cause serious illness,no matter your age.
The understandable fury reawakened by Floyd’s murder was the enemy of sensible planning.
We need to test children to detect those that are infected yet well.
Better to do it now for a limited period when we can make a real dent in the spread of the virus than a few weeks from now,when it will be so much harder and take so much longer.
Many Australians seem to be carrying on with life as normal over the weekend. Unless we follow guidelines,our infection rates will rise dramatically.