States have to wait for Pfizer boost after figures confirm NSW got extra | CroweDM
The federal government will wait until the final weeks of this year to reverse a vaccine boost for NSW as Labor premiers accuse Prime Minister Scott Morrison of favouring his home state by giving it more than its fair share of Pfizer doses.
NSW received 35.6 per cent of the Pfizer doses across the three programs, higher than its 32 per cent share of the population, as a result of federal decisions to give it more doses to combat the outbreak that began in June. “Some don’t like to see this as a race, but a race it surely is. What I did not know was that Premier Berejiklian is in a sprint while the rest of us are supposed to do some egg and spoon thing.”
This meant NSW received 1.2 million, or 43.1 per cent, of the total for the primary care program in the seven months to the end of August, well above its population share of 32 per cent. “It’s like getting an advance on your pay – you get it upfront and then give it back later,” one federal source said of the decisions to help some states during outbreaks.
This meant the state received 756,234 doses of Pfizer over the seven months to the end of August, or 6.2 per cent of the overall program. This was slightly less than its 6.9 per cent population share.
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