Vaccine hesitancy is still high despite more than 14million Australians being in lockdown with an epidemiologist describing the campaign against AstraZeneca as a baffling public health disaster .
An Essential Media poll found 41 per cent of those delaying their first vaccine shot were waiting for more Pfizer doses to be more readily available from September, following four deaths from the AstraZeneca jab.
While Australia has plentiful supplies of AstraZeneca, just 14.1 per cent of Australians over 16 were fully vaccinated against Covid, as of July 19, despite the Indian Delta strain being more contagious, Department of Health data showed.
That is well below the herd immunity level of more than 80 per cent needed or the 70 per cent figure Prime Minister Scott Morrison is advocating to avoid more lockdowns.
Paraphrased or verballed? Labor s claim about Scott Morrison and Wellcamp Airport misses the mark
Federal Labor politicians claim Scott Morrison rejected the idea of using Wellcamp Airport near Toowoomba as a quarantine facility because its runway isn t big enough for jets. But RMIT ABC Fact Check could find no record of the Prime Minister saying such a thing. 16 July 2021
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This week, CoronaCheck investigates whether Prime Minister Scott Morrison wrongly claimed that jets could not land at an airport in Toowoomba, as suggested by Labor senator Kristina Keneally.
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It’s never been a better time to be a stoic, and the stoics say we should lean into fate.
But during the pandemic it has often felt like fate is leaning into us, threatening to tip us over.
Now is one of those times.
NSW is neck-deep into a lockdown with no firm end date.
Victoria is dealing with twin outbreaks and citizens have slammed the bunker door again after a snap five-day lockdown was announced on Thursday afternoon to start from midnight.
Grandiose statements about political and national unity have given way to needless, contentious bickering between state and federal government, and between the states themselves.