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Policy Forum, economist and modeller Professor Quentin Grafton of Australian National University, along with other experts including epidemiologist and biostatistician Dr Zoë Hyde of the University of Western Australia, put forward four changes they believe are necessary for Australia s vaccination program. With the emergence of more transmissible new variants, Australia s current COVID-19 vaccination strategy doesn t make sense from either a public health or an economic perspective, they write. It must change or Australia risks a future epidemic and/or very large costs from lockdowns when its international border reopens. They believe Australia needs to do four things.
Australia’s COVID-19 vaccination strategy must change
10 May 2021
Australia can only achieve herd immunity from COVID-19 if it changes its vaccine strategy, Quentin Grafton, Zoë Hyde, Tom Kompas, and John Parslow write.
The world has now reached the grim milestone of about 160 million total confirmed cases of COVID-19. More than 20 million cases have been reported by India, which has been devastated by a second wave driven by the premature relaxation of public health measures and more transmissible variants of the virus.
Even some countries with high vaccination rates haven’t been spared. Chile is battling a new wave of infections despite more than one third of its population being fully vaccinated, mostly with CoronaVac.