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Courtesy of Bernard Keane at Crikey:
Scott Morrison’s story on why the vaccine rollout is a disaster keeps changing. And it has nothing to do with 3.1 million vaccines doses held up by Europe (a claim the EU denies, in any event).
Yesterday, when asked why the government was so badly adrift of its initial forecast that 4 million people would be vaccinated by the end of March, Morrison replied:
You talked about the 4 million figure. Well the simple explanation of that is 3 million 3.1 million vaccines that never came to Australia. And so that is the reason. Back in early January we had anticipated we would have those 3.1 million vaccines. Those 3.1 million vaccines were not supplied to Australia, and that explains the difference between the numbers you are referring to, and we made that very clear back in February. So to and we made it very clear that they were indicative figures that we were working to at that time based on th
 Overnight, a Queensland doctor said 100 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine had to be destroyed due to botched handling during delivery. Every hundred, every thousand we lose is just gut-wrenching because we can t get the vaccinations done, Brisbane GP Ian Williams told Channel 9. Dr Williams said the shipment of the vaccine sent to his clinic was transported incorrectly and arrived wasted, with its in-built sensor showing it wasn t held at the required temperature. The delivery driver said, Oh, another one , he claimed. Channel 9 reported that a second GP clinic in Brisbane also received a spoiled batch of 100 vaccine doses that were transported at the incorrect temperature.
 Overnight, a Queensland doctor said 100 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine had to be destroyed due to botched handling during delivery. Every hundred, every thousand we lose is just gut-wrenching because we can t get the vaccinations done, Brisbane GP Ian Williams told Channel 9. Dr Williams said the shipment of the vaccine sent to his clinic was transported incorrectly and arrived wasted, with its in-built sensor showing it wasn t held at the required temperature. The delivery driver said, Oh, another one , he claimed. Channel 9 reported that a second GP clinic in Brisbane also received a spoiled batch of 100 vaccine doses that were transported at the incorrect temperature.
 Overnight, a Queensland doctor said 100 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine had to be destroyed due to botched handling during delivery. Every hundred, every thousand we lose is just gut-wrenching because we can t get the vaccinations done, Brisbane GP Ian Williams told Channel 9. Dr Williams said the shipment of the vaccine sent to his clinic was transported incorrectly and arrived wasted, with its in-built sensor showing it wasn t held at the required temperature. The delivery driver said, Oh, another one , he claimed. Channel 9 reported that a second GP clinic in Brisbane also received a spoiled batch of 100 vaccine doses that were transported at the incorrect temperature.
 Overnight, a Queensland doctor said 100 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine had to be destroyed due to botched handling during delivery. Every hundred, every thousand we lose is just gut-wrenching because we can t get the vaccinations done, Brisbane GP Ian Williams told Channel 9. Dr Williams said the shipment of the vaccine sent to his clinic was transported incorrectly and arrived wasted, with its in-built sensor showing it wasn t held at the required temperature. The delivery driver said, Oh, another one , he claimed. Channel 9 reported that a second GP clinic in Brisbane also received a spoiled batch of 100 vaccine doses that were transported at the incorrect temperature.