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Vaccine lottery: I was lucky to get my jab, but others weren't – Monash lens


On Monday morning, 29 March, at 9.30, I was one of 40 lucky people to be given their first shot of the AstraZeneca vaccine at the Southbank Convention Centre, locally known as Jeff’s Shed.
I am in category 1B, and therefore eligible. But according to Jeroen Weimar, Victoria’s Commander of Testing and Community Engagement, I should not have been vaccinated, because the focus at that time was on “frontline/essential workers”.
How did this mistake happen?
The main factor was multi-layered confusion.
Who was confused?  
Everyone involved in running Jeff’s Shed:
The administrative assistants who only asked for my Medicare card and driver’s licence to show I was eligible.  ....

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