More vaccine worries. Should be enough to vaccinate essential, services. I believe we are manufacturing the other vaccine here.
Pharma giant Pfizer says it would be open to offering Australia more doses of its world-leading COVID vaccine, after the federal government was criticised for securing enough only for five million people.
But the president of the Australian Medical Association has called for the vaccine rollout infrastructure to be vastly expanded, saying the plan to offer jabs in 1000 locations Australia-wide is “not enough to do the job”.
The federal Senate’s COVID committee held its first hearing of 2021 on Thursday, with health experts, federal authorities and pharmaceutical companies grilled for answers on how Australia will deliver coronavirus vaccines.
Pfizer Australia’s market access director Louise Graham told the Senate the company had offered Australia the chance to buy only 10 million doses of its vaccine. She said negotiations began with the Morrison government only at the end of June 2020.
'Not enough to do the job': COVID jab fears amid talks to boost supply (thenewdaily.com.au)
