Vaccine mandate protests around the country are distracting politicians from the ongoing climate crisis that still requires urgent attention, writes Sue Arnold.
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Phil Valentine’s family says he regrets his position and pleaded with listeners to get vaccinated.
Source: A Conservative Radio Host Mocked the Vaccine. Now He’s Hospitalized With COVID. – Mother Jones
Death of a Salesman. If this doesn’t amplify the need to know why Morrison was sacked in NZ and Sacked by Aus Tourism what does? What are the reasons Australian people need to be kept in the dark? This seems to be the origin of the bullshit Morrison term “underwater matters” the cover-up for total incompetence.
Public relations has trumped public health as the Prime Minister targets the AstraZeneca vaccine as a scapegoat to shift blame from his own incompetence, writes Paul Begley.
Source: Scott Morrison shifts vaccine rollout blame with planned PR strategy
Unlike other vaccine rollouts, the Morrison Government’s COVID vaccine rollout hasn’t been distributed by the states, but by Liberal-aligned private companies. Andrew P Street follows the money.
Source: Morrison’s vaccine rollout fail: Mates versus the states
Trump is eating dust yet again.
Jakarta: Indonesia’s state-owned pharmaceutical company Bio Farma said on Tuesday that interim data on trials it was conducting on vaccines produced by the Chinese company Sinovac showed up to 97 per cent efficacy. “Our clinical trial team found, within one month, that the interim data shows up to 97 per cent for its efficacy,” said Iwan Setiawan, a spokesman for Bio Farma, at a news conference.
Sinovac vaccine shows up to 97 per cent efficacy in early trials, Bio Farma says
Donald Trump’s days in the White House are numbered, but that has not stopped him from advancing his administration’s ‘America First’ approach. The outgoing President wants to limit the world’s access to a coronavirus vaccine so that Americans take priority and are first in line to get the jab. He held a vaccine summit at the White House on Wednesday morning (Australian time) and signed an executive order. It was to ensure “Americans have first priority to receive American vaccines”, Mr Trump said.
Coronavirus vaccines: How Donald Trump could affect a global rollout
The Australian Catholic Church says it will not support a potential vaccine for the coronavirus, arguing that a more effective method would be moving the virus to another location and pretending nothing had happened.
Catholic Church Opposes Vaccine, Suggests Moving COVID To Another Parish Instead | The Shovel
How the race to develop treatments and a vaccine will create a historic windfall for the industry — and everyone else will pay the price
Big Pharma’s Covid-19 Profiteers – Rolling Stone
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