Australia's mixed messages on Covid vaccines sow confusion

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Australia's vaccine rollout has been slow and chaotic, as government leaders and health advisors send out mixed messages.

. At the moment, only the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca shots are approved for use, and both require two doses for full immunization.

Mixed messaging from the Australian government and ATAGI has created confusion — and hesitancy — about the available vaccines and their safety.ATAGI says that people between the ages of 16 and 59 years old should preferably receive Pfizer shots while the government says those people can opt for AstraZeneca after consulting their doctors.the bulk of the doses could arrive only in the third quarter.

People queue outside a vaccination center in Sydney on June 24, 2021, as residents were largely banned from leaving the city to stop a growing outbreak of the highly contagious Delta Covid-19 variant spreading to other regions.For those 60 years and older, the group said the benefits of receiving the AstraZeneca dose outweighed the risks of developing blood clots.

 

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AstraZeneca vaccine is safe and is good as Pfizer and Moderna , but the problem from the media and the political they misuse the vaccine to escape the ill advised .

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Mixed is being kind.

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