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If deaths didn't occur in elderly homes I'd be extremely worried as elderly homes are supposed to be places where people go to die.
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So what is the exact take up rate of vaccines now? Any such article?
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And useless lao slut @ginfreely put her old age mum in elderly home and ownself not working and said is normal KNN
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Why Australia is not 'rushing' to approve a COVID-19 jab
A patient is injected with the coronavirus vaccine at a clinic in Strasbourg, eastern France. (AP)
"Ultimately, the question is whether the benefit of using the vaccine outweighs the known risks and the uncertainties," Dr Cheng said.
"Countries where there are hundreds or thousands of deaths each day are clearly willing to tolerate some uncertainty to prevent this, and this is appropriate."
Israel is leading the pack in the vaccine race, with 14.4 doses administered per 100 people, according to Oxford University data.
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The rate is the highest in the world, followed by Bahrain, the UK and the US.
More than 12.9 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered across 30 countries so far, including 4.5 million in the US, 4.5 million in China and 1.2 million in Israel.
Professor Collignon said countries such as those in Europe, Israel, US and the UK had only given emergency approval of the vaccine due to their perilous COVID-19 death rates.
"We shouldn't do experiments before we see more data because we're not in an emergency situation," he said.
"They have uncontrolled infections and lots of deaths.
"Australia should not be at the front of the queue.
"We don't have uncontrolled spread, in fact, we've got little spread."
Prime Minister Scott Morrison shared the same view as the experts, telling 3AW today Australia was not in urgent need of a vaccine compared to other countries, which would see shortcuts taken if approved at this stage.
"They are in a position where they have no other choice because of the terrible situation they find themselves in," he said.
The final agreement between the Australian government and pharmaceutical giant Pfizer was solidified on Christmas Eve, with 10 million doses to be made available for a March rollout if the vaccine is approved by regulators.
Australia also has vaccine agreements with Pfizer-BioNTech, Oxford-AstraZeneca and Novavax.
President of the Australian Medical Association Dr Omar Khorshid told Today the ethical debate was one that needed more attention, rather than the push to quickly roll out a vaccine.
"It's more important to be given to people in Europe than it is in Australia," he said.
"There's a real ethical question as to whether we should be taking doses of this vaccine from other countries that are needing it more than us.
"But hopefully if the AstraZeneca vaccine gets approved it will be manufactured here and we'll have our own source for Australians and plenty of vaccine for every Australian."
However, Professor Collignon warned a vaccine would not make the world "go back to normal".
"I think people get the impression once we vaccinate the problem will go away - but that's not realistic," he said.
"It's not going to be an instant fix. We are going to have to live with this problem for another year or two at least.
"You have to have all the world vaccinated for the world to go back to normal like in 2019."
"Ultimately, the question is whether the benefit of using the vaccine outweighs the known risks and the uncertainties," Dr Cheng said.
"Countries where there are hundreds or thousands of deaths each day are clearly willing to tolerate some uncertainty to prevent this, and this is appropriate."
Israel is leading the pack in the vaccine race, with 14.4 doses administered per 100 people, according to Oxford University data.
Some content couldn’t be displayed in Google AMP. To see what’s missing visit the full article here.
The rate is the highest in the world, followed by Bahrain, the UK and the US.
More than 12.9 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered across 30 countries so far, including 4.5 million in the US, 4.5 million in China and 1.2 million in Israel.
Professor Collignon said countries such as those in Europe, Israel, US and the UK had only given emergency approval of the vaccine due to their perilous COVID-19 death rates.
"We shouldn't do experiments before we see more data because we're not in an emergency situation," he said.
"They have uncontrolled infections and lots of deaths.
"Australia should not be at the front of the queue.
"We don't have uncontrolled spread, in fact, we've got little spread."
Prime Minister Scott Morrison shared the same view as the experts, telling 3AW today Australia was not in urgent need of a vaccine compared to other countries, which would see shortcuts taken if approved at this stage.
"They are in a position where they have no other choice because of the terrible situation they find themselves in," he said.
The final agreement between the Australian government and pharmaceutical giant Pfizer was solidified on Christmas Eve, with 10 million doses to be made available for a March rollout if the vaccine is approved by regulators.
Australia also has vaccine agreements with Pfizer-BioNTech, Oxford-AstraZeneca and Novavax.
President of the Australian Medical Association Dr Omar Khorshid told Today the ethical debate was one that needed more attention, rather than the push to quickly roll out a vaccine.
"It's more important to be given to people in Europe than it is in Australia," he said.
"There's a real ethical question as to whether we should be taking doses of this vaccine from other countries that are needing it more than us.
"But hopefully if the AstraZeneca vaccine gets approved it will be manufactured here and we'll have our own source for Australians and plenty of vaccine for every Australian."
However, Professor Collignon warned a vaccine would not make the world "go back to normal".
"I think people get the impression once we vaccinate the problem will go away - but that's not realistic," he said.
"It's not going to be an instant fix. We are going to have to live with this problem for another year or two at least.
"You have to have all the world vaccinated for the world to go back to normal like in 2019."
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