Might want to check the maths - 8x30x170000=40.8Million - we seem to have expanded 😀

In CHO Paul Kelly's press briefing today he said "availability" of the vaccine from overseas will be part of the issue after it is cleared for use in Australia. Tried to circumvent this, but was asked why there might be gap between approval in January and rollout late March.

Please note ... there are 50 STATE health systems whose responsibility is to vaccinate their STATES citizens! Trump sped the creation of the vaccine. Trump assured its fast distribution to THE STATES! ANY DELAYS belong to the STATE administering the dispensing of vaccinations!

To be fair, most cities haven't had to covid test at the rates Sydney and Melbourne have had to. They probably have the capacity to ramp up quite a bit in the other states yet.

Media don't challenge PM spin. It gets him through the next month and the next. Of course it's unrealistic to vaccinate in that time, but outrageous claims are unchallenged. When that time comes, and vaccines aren't rolled out, they'll have found a new 'look over here' moment

Tangential to your point (as I happen to think our healthcare system will be given the resources it needs to prioritise and stand up to the task and thus no struggle), but it’s weird how your posts attract so many weirdos blathering on about the Venetians and the Vatican. 🙃🧐🤨

Just start vaccinating now. This is ridiculous

The logistics of this are something we’ve never faced, but #ScottyFromMarketing seems to think it’s all easy.

Mary, can time necessary to administer a vaccine be compared to testing time at all? In 1972, upon the last outbreak of smallpox in Europe, Yugoslavia managed to vaccinate nearly 18M people in less than 2 months. Surely we can do better 50 years after?

Didnt they give 24 million flu injections in one year? Surely if they can do that -they can give COVID vaccines with similar efficiency? Ofcourse we still need strict quaranteen.