Who's eligible for the new boosters? Thefederal governmenthas accepted the Australian Technical Advisory Group (ATAGI) recommendation to use the new vaccines after Australia's regulatorapproved their use last month. However, vaccine eligibility has remained the same since September. ATAGIrecommendsAustr...
The third dose of Pfizer will be the same formulation that's currently being given across Australia. In the US, Moderna is planning to administera half-doseas the third shot. When should boosters be given? The best timing of third doses for widespread use isn't yet clear, and there are...
Minister for Health and Aged Care Greg Hunt said in a media release on Thursday that senior Australians in residential aged care are leading the national uptake of boosters, with 80.56 percent of those eligible for their third vaccine shot now having received it. "The booster vaccination rate fo...
A booster dose represents a dose of vaccine after the primary vaccination series, i.e., any dose after one dose of Ad26.COV2.S or two doses of ChAdOx1, BNT162b2, or mRNA-1273. In this section, we review the immunogenicity and effectiveness of boosters against viral variants and compari...
In Australia we thought we had crushed COVID-19. For a brief period, Australia enjoyed months of living largely free of the virus. While the virus continued to ravage other parts of the world. But then the virus mutated and restrictions returned. Our current response, mass vaccination, offers...
"Whether it's our teachers, nurses, our frontline health and disability workers, where NSW Health has previously required mandatory vaccination ... we will move to boosters being included as part of that fully vaccinated determination."■
negative affect and response costs are negatively related to COVID-19 vaccination intentions. Finally, Perceived probability, subjective norms, response efficacy and self-efficacy are positively related to COVID-19 vaccination intentions; among them, self-efficacy contributes the most, followed by respons...
Study findings should provide guidance on the risk communication strategy to enhance vaccine acceptance for vaccination and boosters against new SARS-CoV-2 variants.doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.03.062Shah, ShimoniGui, HaoChua, Pearleen Ee Yong
"This reinforces the need to boost supply of COVID-19 vaccines to the region, not only because many countries in the Asia Pacific have very low vaccination rates, but also because it will reassure Australians that they can get aboosterwithout putting others at risk," Professor Biddle said. ...
Australia has just expanded access to a second COVID booster to everyone 30 years and over, while recommending it only for people 50 and over. That means it's up to people aged 30–49 years to decide whether they would like a second booster, but they wil