zang
Senior Member
Makes sense given the lesser amount of vaccine hesitancy here.
Makes sense given the lesser amount of vaccine hesitancy here.
It’s kind of funny. I think, in a way, the constrained supply is encouraging people to get the vaccine here. Like a limited edition product people line up to purchase right away.Makes sense given the lesser amount of vaccine hesitancy here.
Hi from lockdown 4.0 currently scheduled to only last 7 days (here's hoping) after we've had 30 cases of the Indian VoC spread in Melbourne. The guy who brought it here had completed hotel quarantine in Adelaide and tested negative over each time he was tested in 14 days and when he got to Melbourne he tested positive a few days later.
Report from SA authorities shows the guy getting it on the day he left quarantine from another positive case who was in a hotel room opposite this guys (yes, aerosol transmission is f*cked).
Anyhow, lockdown was announced yesterday for all of Victoria (as some cases had travelled out of the metro area) at 26 cases, 4 new today - all of them are epidemiologically linked but there have community jumps in the chains - two distinct clusters in the north and south of the city but yeah now a confirmed case from a nightclub a positive case was at.
Biggest benefit to the lockdown has been it's been the wakeup call we've needed for vaccines. AZ has been available to anyone over 50 for a while now but many appeared to be treating it like a restaurant buffet "waiting" for pfizer (which is only available to people in high-risk occupations or environments - like Aged Car or people under 50).
Mass vax centres that have had few people going through them prior to this week are now chockas. And 40-49 year olds can now get pfizer. I'm 39 and a half, I can't believe I'm saying this but I wish I was 40 .
We’re catching up to the US in another way. I wonder if we could see the Canada-US border open sooner rather than later.
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It’s kind of funny. I think, in a way, the constrained supply is encouraging people to get the vaccine here. Like a limited edition product people line up to purchase right away.
Sounds like they should be cohorting hotel quarantines (ie, start assigning rooms from one end of the corridor to the other).Report from SA authorities shows the guy getting it on the day he left quarantine from another positive case who was in a hotel room opposite this guys (yes, aerosol transmission is f*cked).
The real problem with allowing earlier second doses is that one apparently needs to cancel an existing appointment BEFORE knowing if there are any earlier appointments. You can actually end up with a LATER one as your original (cancelled slot may be gone by the time you find out it is actually the earliest date available.
We just got a text about booking our second shot, but it was from a pharmacy we have never been to. I think it’s a phone number error, because they did address us by name .... the wrong name.