Shadow Health Minister Bowenchris says a $1.7 billion supply and production agreement between the Australian government and pharmaceutical companies for two promising COVID-19 vaccine candidates is the Coalition doing what it “lied” about weeks ago.
Shadow Health Minister Chris Bowen says a $1.7 billion supply and production agreement between the Australian government and pharmaceutical companies for two promising COVID-19 vaccine candidates is the Coalition doing what it “lied” about weeks ago. “It’s basically the government doing today what they lied about three weeks ago when they said they had a deal when they didn’t,” Mr Bowen told Sky News.
8 million doses of the University of Oxford vaccine in January and February 2021. “It would be prudent to have other measures in place as well,” Mr Bowen said. “We do know that vaccines have a 96 per cent failure rate from beginning to end – that means the vast majority of those vaccines under development around the world will fail but some will work. “We have to maximise our chances of having access to those who do.
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