The Australian Greens have lashed the Morrison Government\u2019s vaccine rollout, saying that tonight\u2019s announcement of a health advisory to no longer vaccinate many people under 50 would have been avoidable if Australia had a domestic mRNA manufacturing capacity.
\n\u201cThe government\u2019s rollout is in shambles. This is precisely why Australia should have built domestic mRNA vaccine manufacturing capacity at the start of the pandemic,\u201d Senator Siewert said.
\n\u201cWe shouldn\u2019t be playing catch-up – completely rewriting our vaccine strategy weeks into the rollout, with vaccine choice determined by availability, not evidence based health policy.
\n\u201cIf we had domestic mRNA manufacturing capacity established in Australia, we wouldn\u2019t be telling under 50\u2019s that they should only be vaccinated where \u2018the benefits outweigh the risk\u2019. We would be vaccinating them with the best, safest vaccine.
\n\u201cIf we had domestic mRNA vaccine production ability, we could be shifting our rollout to other vaccines, like Novovax or Pfizer.
\n\u201cInstead, Scott Morrison is seemingly just making it up as we go along.
\n\u201cWe need to make sure that people here are rapidly vaccinated with the best available vaccine, and that we\u2019re able to play our role in supplying vaccines to the Pacific.
\n\u201cTo do that, we need a publicly-owned mRNA vaccine manufacturer in Australia.
\n\u201cScientists and health experts have backed the Greens\u2019 call for Australia to build mRNA vaccine manufacturing capacity on our shores.
\n\u201cWith publicly-owned domestic manufacturing capacity, we won\u2019t just be able to make sure that everyone here is inoculated against new pandemics as they come, but we\u2019ll be a vaccine production hub for the region.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Australian Greens have lashed the Morrison Government\u2019s vaccine rollout, saying that tonight\u2019s announcement of a health advisory to no longer vaccinate many people under 50 would have been avoidable if Australia had a domestic mRNA manufacturing capacity. \u201cThe government\u2019s rollout is in shambles. This is precisely why Australia should have built domestic mRNA vaccine … Continue reading “GREENS SAY MRNA VACCINE CAPACITY WOULD PREVENT KNEEJERK VACCINE STRATEGY”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}