{"id":12488,"date":"2021-08-13T03:39:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T03:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=12488"},"modified":"2021-08-13T03:39:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T03:39:02","slug":"kids-must-be-part-of-national-vaccine-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/08\/13\/kids-must-be-part-of-national-vaccine-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids must be part of national vaccine target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kids and teenagers must be included in the government&#8217;s national vaccine targets, Greens leader, Adam Bandt, said today. Young people deserve protection and without high rates of vaccination of the whole population, we will never get out of rolling lockdowns.<br \/>\nThe Prime Minister\u2019s current targets exclude children and most teenagers. The PM\u2019s 80% target is really a 65% target of the whole population.<br \/>\nThere are reports that kids and teenagers make\u00a0 up a third of cases in NSW and outbreaks in schools are happening across the country. Over 5000 children and teenagers have contracted the virus since the pandemic began in Australia, with the numbers of children contracting the delta strain growing.<br \/>\n<strong>Greens Leader Adam Bandt said:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cI am again calling on the National Cabinet to include children and teenagers in the vaccine targets and rollouts.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThe Prime Minister might want to exclude kids and teenagers so that his vaccination targets are easier to meet, but National Cabinet should not let him.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cNational Cabinet can\u2019t let Scott Morrison fudge the numbers by excluding children from vaccine targets.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThese current outbreaks are a pandemic of the unvaccinated, but if we leave kids out of the national targets it will become a pandemic of children.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kids and teenagers must be included in the government&#8217;s national vaccine targets, Greens leader, Adam Bandt, said today. Young people deserve protection and without high rates of vaccination of the whole population, we will never get out of rolling lockdowns. The Prime Minister\u2019s current targets exclude children and most teenagers. The PM\u2019s 80% target is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/08\/13\/kids-must-be-part-of-national-vaccine-target\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kids must be part of national vaccine target&#8221;<\/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-12488","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\/12488","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=12488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}