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People have voiced their anger over a graphic COVID-19 advertisement airing on Sydney television screens that seems to encourage young people to get vaccinated when many are still unable to.
In the short federal government-funded TV ad, a young woman on a ventilator struggles to breathe in a hospital bed as her heart monitor beeps.
She slowly makes eye contact with the camera and gasps for air as a message reads: COVID-19 can affect anyone. Stay home. Get tested. Book your vaccination.
Here’s the Government ad which will run in Sydney tonight. #COVID19nsw#COVID19
Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly said the Australian government had specifically commissioned the ad because of the intensifying outbreak in NSW.