Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has emphasised her disdain over the COVID-19 vaccine bungle, declaring the next 24 to 48 hours would be critical for the two aged care residents who accidentally received an overdose.
A 88-year-old man and a 94-year-old woman were given five times the recommended dose of the Pfizer vaccine at the Holy Spirit Nursing Home in Carseldine in Brisbane on Tuesday.
An investigation is underway following the overdose, with the Federal Government warning Healthcare Australia it could be sacked after it emerged the doctor who gave the vaccination had not completed full training.
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Subscriber only A FAMILY reeling from the death of their three-year-old son over the weekend say his passing could have been avoided and are now pushing for a new law to ensure the same thing doesn t happen to anyone else. Lucas Faram died on Sunday in Townsville University Hospital following long-stemming health complications. The little battler was born at just 24 weeks gestation with a severe bleed to the brain which required a ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt to be inserted. In his short life, Lucas also battled heart disease, chronic lung disease and cerebral palsy. His parents, Paul and Gelria, believe doctors should have requested an MRI to check if the shunt was working when they arrived at the hospital emergency department on Friday.
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Subscriber only Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt. has confirmed Australia s vaccine program is on track and ahead of schedule . He said the government, which expects to rollout the vaccine from March, would rather over promise and under deliver than put false hope on a vaccine being available sooner. I want to reflect on vaccines, he said. We ve had some very important news. We see the AstraZeneca vaccine is making progress both in the UK, in the US, and in Europe. I ve been briefed this morning by the global head of AstraZeneca and the Australian head of AstraZeneca. Our vaccine program is on track and ahead of schedule.
Devastated. That is the word Professor Paul Young from the University of Queensland uses to describe the canning of Australia s most promising COVID-19 vaccine. Although the vaccine s revolutionary molecular clamp technology returned a robust immune response to coronavirus in 216 trial recipients in the Phase 1 trial, volunteers were warned that fragments of a protein derived from the HIV virus could produce antibodies, or a partial immune response to HIV. Although there was no possibility the participants could acquire HIV, the vaccine had the potential to interfere with existing HIV testing procedures. Dr Marianne Gillard, Minister Kate Jones, Professor of Virology Paul Young (centre), Dr Keith Chappell, and Dr Dan Watterson, in the Molecular Virology Lab. Picture: Liam Kidston
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