We know the Government plans to make COVID-19 vaccines available to all Australians, but experts say it is time the public is told who will get the drug first, and who will have to wait.
Experts are calling on the Federal Government to release details of how it intends to distribute approved COVID-19 vaccines across the country, saying Australians deserve information about who is likely to get the drug first.It is 'highly unlikely' all Australians will be able to be vaccinated at once, according to experts
Xavier Symons, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Plunkett Centre of Ethics, said people were owed information about where they sat on the priority list."The Government needs to let the public know what its ethical order of prioritisation is." These reports contain a great amount of detail and recommend the order in which citizens should access COVID-19 vaccines, and the reasoning behind those decisions.In Australia, the group advising the Federal Government on how any COVID-19 vaccine should be rolled out is the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation ., which says: "As vaccines are approved for Australian use, the national COVID-19 immunisation program will be updated regularly on the basis of ongoing ATAGI advice.
"It's an obvious problem that I would assume they're trying to address, but if that's the case, it's not being done in a very public way." "If and when a vaccine becomes available, decisions on how to best implement a vaccination program will be made taking into account all available public health, medical and epidemiological data available at that time," they said.
He said communication with the public was important if people were going to have to accept being lower in the queue."People who aren't vaccinated will have continuing restrictions on them, so I think there really needs to be an understanding in the community about why certain groups get the vaccine and why others have a lower priority.
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