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Health chief defends AstraZeneca vaccine as some question Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine strategy – ABC News
Australia is relying on Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines to protect its citizens from COVID-19 but some believe it was a mistake to bypass other leading candidates…
Questions have been raised about Australia’s reliance on the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the fight against COVID-19, with calls for the Federal Government to secure more doses of higher efficacy jabs instead.
The criticism prompted the nation’s former chief medical officer, now head of the Department of Health, Professor Brendan Murphy, to defend the AstraZeneca vaccine, telling 7.30 he would be “very pleased to have it”.
Australian healthcare workers will start getting their COVID-19 vaccines…
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