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The Federal Government will also commandeer shopping centres and schools, turning them into drive-thru vaccination clinics as they prepare to send ‘flying squads’ of nurses into workplaces offering Pfizer and AstraZeneca jabs to employees.
Australia’s desperate bid to ramp up coronavirus vaccination rates will get a shot in the arm from September, with major sporting stadiums and carparks across the country to be transformed into vaccine hubs.
Under the inoculation blitz, participating pharmacies will stay open long into the night and on weekends to offer the life-saving shots to the public, with Scott Morrison gunning for a vaccination rate of 80 per cent in order to forgo the country’s ongoing cycle of rolling lockdowns.
However Australia’s top counter-terrorism cop has vowed to crack down on dangerous groups inciting violent resistance to vaccination and lockdowns. With about 10 per cent of the population already considered to be ‘vaccine-hesitant’ and a growing number anti-vaxx propagandists spewing worrying misinformation online, reaching the target may prove a challenge.
Nations with the the most vaccine doses:
1. Mainland China 1,688,683,000
2. India 472,223,639
3. United States 346,924,345
4. Brazil 142,559,470
5. Germany 92,376,787
6. Japan 89,111,989
7. United Kingdom 85,336,436
8. France 74,071,126
9. Turkey 73,887,381
10. Italy 69,200,779
11. Indonesia 68,620,908
12. Mexico 67,594,385
13. Russia 62,369,448
14. Spain 56,795,869
15. Canada 49,566,034
16. Poland 34,463,736
17. Argentina 32,335,391
18. Pakistan 30,590,183
19. Saudi Arabia 27,810,488
20. Colombia 27,751,197
33. Australia 12,393,893Â
Government modelling by the Doherty Institute said that a 70 per cent vaccination rate could be achieved by October 18 if AstraZeneca doses are given four weeks apart, and 80 per cent could even be vaccinated by November 8.
If doses are given 12 weeks apart then the latest date an 80 per cent rate is predicted to be reached is November 22.
Under Mr Morrison’s four-stage re-opening plan, a state or territory can remove the need for restrictions when the national vaccination rate hits 70 per cent and the rate in that state also hits 70 per cent.
Nations with highest vaccination rates:
1. Gibraltar 116.1%
2. Malta 86.7%
3. Pitcairn 76.6%
4. Iceland 74.6%
5. Cayman Islands 73.0%
6. United Arab Emirates 70.7%
7. Isle of Man 70.0%
8. Seychelles 69.7%
9. San Marino 68.3%
10. Nauru 66.9%
11. Bermuda 65.8%
12. Jersey 65.6%
13. Chile 64.5%
14. Uruguay 64.4%
15. Bahrain 62.2%
16. Israel 62.2%
17. Bhutan 61.8%
18. Aruba 61.7%
19. Qatar 60.9%
20. Mongolia 60.6%
86. Australia 15.4%
The NSW Council for Civil Liberties also says ‘vaccine passports’ to get into concerts, football stadiums and nightclubs, does not infringe on human rights.
‘It’s within the rights of employers to say to employees I need to keep everyone safe. The right to life, the right to be free of disease, is pretty fundamental,’ president Pauline Wright told The Australian.
‘And with vaccine passports at a nightclub, for example, you make a deal at the door. You’re saying if you come into my premises, I have to think of my staff.
‘We would oppose a blanket mandate across the population as that offends freedoms – people have religious views, for Âexample – but looking at each Âinstance (in different workplaces), it’s hard to see an incursion on liberties.’
The Federal Government is preparing to send ‘flying squads’ of nurses into workplaces offering Pfizer and AstraZeneca jabs to employees. Pictured: Health workers are seen at the NSW Vaccination centre at Olympic Park in Sydney
Thousands of protesters last weekend stormed Sydney and Melbourne’s CBD rallying against lockdowns and vaccines as many clashed with police and chanted unfounded anti-science rhetoric claiming ‘Covid is a hoax’.
The marches were fuelled by a surge in online chatter – much of it calling for violence.
Australian Federal Police Âassistant commissioner Scott Lee said he’s deeply concerned by the ‘escalation in the online environment’ fearing online activism could turn into terrorism as millions of Australians continue to live under stay-at-home orders.
‘We are looking at the online environment very closely and where we see commentary cross the threshold that goes to the Âpotential for a commitment to Âviolence or violent acts, that’s where we’ll take action,’ he told The Australian.
So-called ‘breakthrough’ COVID-19 cases occur when people contract the disease 14 days or more after receiving their second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine or the Johnson & Johnson one-shot jab.
Clinical trials have shown that Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine is 95% effective in preventing symptomatic disease and the Moderna vaccine is 94.5% effective.
Meanwhile, real-world data showed the Pfizer jab is 91% effective against all disease for at least six months and the Moderna vaccine is 90% effective.
This means that fully vaccinated people are between 90% and 95% less likely to develop COVID-19 than unvaccinated people.
In addition, Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine trials showed 72% efficacy in the U.S., meaning those who got the one-shot jab are 72% less likely to contract the disease.
When comparing fully vaccinated people who did and did not get sick, the risk is even lower.
The most recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data show that 10,262 of at least 133 million Americans who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 later contracted the disease.
This translates to 0.00716% of people who have completed their vaccine series have gone on to test positive.
It also represents the true odds of getting COVID-19 after full vaccination: less than 0.01%.
What’s more, fully vaccinated people who test positive have mild illnesses, and are very unlikely to be hospitalized or die.
The CDC states that 99.5% of all deaths occur in unvaccinated people.
That means, if the figure applies to the 3,165 Americans who’ve died in July 2021 so far – as of July 13 – about 3,150 deaths would be among unvaccinated people and 15 deaths among fully vaccinated people.
