Controversial Liberal Senator Gerard Rennick has been involved in a back-and-forth with Australia’s chief medical officer Professor Paul Kelly about the effectiveness of vaccines. auspol
During a sometimes heated Senate inquiry into Australia’s Covid response, Queensland Senator Gerard Rennick was also shot down when he suggested children were being treated as “experiments”.
He said they had been cautiously watching what was happening in the USA where 5 million children had received the vaccine. “OK so with regards to transmission you have to admit the vaccine hasn’t stopped transmission, we know the Omicron variant came to Australia through vaccinated arrivals and plenty of people, it is well known now, vaccinated people transmit the virus as well, so I don’t necessarily buy into that,” he said.
Professor Blythe, who is a paediatrician, immediately responded: “I don’t think I really agree with your position”.“What we do when we assess a vaccine is we look at the benefits and the risks … we’ve taken a cautious approach and time to assess that,” he said.The inquiry had earlier heard that Australia was on track to have all children aged between five and 11 first-dosed before school starts next year.
By the end of this month there would be 1.7 million eligible, by the end of January 4.1 million and by May it would be 17.8 million.
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