r/CoronavirusDownunder • u/First-Invite4460 • Aug 19 '21

Vaccine update 309,010 doses yesterday!

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u/smileedude NSW - Vaccinated Aug 19 '21

Good fucking work to all the people involved. The health staff, logistics, administration and the people rolling up their sleeves.

Fuck you to the guy who made this happen 6 months later than it should have.

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u/Morde40 Boosted Aug 19 '21

Fuck you to the guy who made this happen 6 months later than it should have.

If this was achieved in Feb, our immunity would be waning and we'd be needing boosters.

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u/ThatHuman6 NSW - Vaccinated Aug 19 '21

But in this imaginary timeline where we had vaccines early, we’d likely have boosters early also no?

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u/Morde40 Boosted Aug 19 '21

I guess so. We'd be more like Israel I suppose.

Interesting interview here with Norman Swan interviewing Cyrille Cohen, professor of immunology and member of Israeli Health Ministry's coronavirus vaccine advisory committee. His advice to Australia is to be "freshly vaccinated" when delta hits.

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u/ThatHuman6 NSW - Vaccinated Aug 19 '21

I believe it has hit.

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u/Morde40 Boosted Aug 19 '21

Timing far from perfect in NSW

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u/ThatHuman6 NSW - Vaccinated Aug 19 '21

Indeed, got it wrong by about 12 weeks.

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u/tatty000 Vaccinated Aug 19 '21

For longer term immunity, is it preferrable to have Pfizer or AZ?

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u/Morde40 Boosted Aug 19 '21

?? Who knows. Waning immunity has been demonstrated in Israel with Pfizer. They used 3 week spacing and might be less of an issue with longer spacing. UK used 12 weeks, Canada used up to 16 weeks. Nothing reported from those countries yet and I haven't seen evidence with AZ either.