obj file plugin for Maxon’s Cinema 4D to extend it’s. So we have to get to a point of herd immunity.Riptide Pro is the enhanced commercial version of my popular (and free) Riptide Wavefront. "We're not going to keep this virus out of Australia forever. Jane Halton said there needed to be better public health messaging to deal with people's concerns and to explain the importance of achieving herd immunity. "We want to be transparent, but we want people to understand that the risk of this blood clot is really tiny, and if you're a vulnerable person, the risk of severe COVID is high." He said some reporting on the AstraZeneca problems wasn't balanced. "I think the biggest impact on hesitancy is, frankly, sensationalist media reporting." "We would have expected at this stage to have had a greater uptake because we've now got 5,000 points of primary care presence and we are supplying excess vaccine and we have seen a slight flattening, when we expected growth."īut Professor Murphy said much of the blame lay with the media.
( Four Corners)īrendan Murphy said vaccine hesitancy was having an impact. Safety concerns have affected vaccination rates. In March, the world began seeing the first signs of an extremely rare but potentially deadly blood-clotting syndrome, which the Therapeutic Goods Administration now said is likely linked to AstraZeneca. We had vaccines go astray," Mr Miles said. "We didn't know how many vaccines would be arriving each day, we had hospitals with people booked in not knowing what vaccines would arrive that day. Queensland Deputy Premier Steven Miles said doses were sent to the wrong location. The states – tasked with vaccinating frontline workers - have also had to deal with the uncertainty of the federal government's supply. Of the 3.1 million doses in arms, nearly 1.8 million of those have been in primary care." "You're talking about one of the most complex logistical exercises … there'll be teething issues," Professor Murphy said. Professor Murphy said only a small number of GPs didn't get the doses they wanted or had delivery issues. Within months of ordering, both were in trouble. "We're one of the few countries in the world that can make vaccines, and as we've seen now, the only vaccine that we've got plentiful supply is one of the ones that we're making locally," Professor Murphy said. Health department secretary and former chief medical officer Brendan Murphy said ordering vaccines that could be made locally was crucial to ensuring supply. In September, Australia finally ordered a combined 85 million doses of AstraZeneca and the locally developed University of Queensland (UQ) vaccine - both of which could be manufactured here. "I was getting a little anxious, that we should strike some deals as well," Ms Halton said. Ms Halton, who has been at the forefront of global efforts to develop COVID vaccines, took notice as countries like the US and UK bought up hundreds of millions of doses from multiple companies. Mid-last year as the pandemic was raging, no one knew if a successful vaccine was even possible.īut countries around the world moved quickly to strike deals with a range of vaccine developers including Moderna, Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer. And that's not where we're at," Ms Halton said. "Have we moved fast enough? Well, I think all of us would like to be in a position where we can open our borders and be confident right now. Jane Halton, who ran the Commonwealth health department for 12 years, said there needed to be a sense of urgency to our rollout. Jane Halton has been concerned by the pace of Australia's vaccine procurement strategy. What we have done is save lives and protect lives, on a scale and an outcome which is the envy of the world." "Our job has been to save lives and to protect lives and to make difficult decisions and to make them immediately. Health Minister Greg Hunt told Four Corners the government has had success where it counts. "If we look like we're slow, if we look like we are taking our time, if we look like we don't really know how well we are doing against our performance expectations … would that fill me with confidence as a citizen? Absolutely not," Professor Nolan said. The Doherty Institute's Professor Terry Nolan said the slow pace risked damaging public confidence. Instead, we're in the slow lane, reliant on a vaccine many don't want, approaching a time of year when experts warn we are vulnerable to an outbreak.įour Corners has investigated how our vaccine program fell short - how the federal government delivered a messy, confused rollout that has delayed our re-opening to the world. Australians were told we'd be "in the leading pack" when it came to vaccines.