Health
This COVID outbreak is a vaccination wake-up call, but who will heed it? – The Sydney Morning Herald
Australia has avoided the worst of the pandemic so far, but complacency around vaccination and quarantine has increased our risk, as Victoria’s outbreak lays bare….
The tenor of peoples conversations on this subject has also changed. Where once they might have laughed about lockdowns as an unfortunate but inevitable novelty of the pandemic, now they are angry that after 15 months and with vaccine protection possible, the pattern just keeps repeating.
But the outbreak must also be a wake-up call for governments. Authorities quickly made changes; on Wednesday night Health Minister Greg Hunt announced an extra 130,000 vaccines would be expedited to Victoria. Then…
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