Australiaâs vaccine options: How they compare
Weâve got potent weapons against the pandemic virus but weâre not acting fast enough to deploy them.
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by Sue Dunlevy
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We won the race to develop vaccines against Covid-19 but our failure to get enough of them into human arms has given the virus time to mutate fast enough to outrun them.
Even before scientists have produced the promised booster vaccine doses to cover the UK, South African and Brazilian variants of the virus several new super infectious Indian types have emerged.
If you've had just one dose of either the Pfizer or AstraZeneca jab, a Public Health England study shows there is only a one in three chance it will protect you from an Indian variant like the one sweeping Melbourne.