EXCLUSIVE Data shows there is majority support for vaccination among Australians but highlights the obstacles in signing up the final quarter of adults. Chief Political Correspondent of theage CroweDM reports
Vaccine concerns have eased slightly after new coronavirus outbreaks, with the number of adults who say they are unlikely to be vaccinated falling from 29 to 26 per cent.
“Encouragingly, over the last month we see a significant jump in the number of adult Australians taking up their first vaccine jab and a flow through to new registrations to do so,” said Resolve director Jim Reed.“However, we still see 26 per cent of Australians are hesitant to get vaccinated, down from 29 per cent last month, so this has not been greatly shifted by the Victorian outbreak.
Health Minister Greg Hunt said on Tuesday morning that 5 million adults had received a first dose and another 800,000 had received two doses. Labor has attacked the government for missing its original targets, with disability services spokesman Bill Shorten saying the country did not have enough supplies when it needed to get at least 75 per cent of people vaccinated.
The latest Resolve Political Monitor was conducted in a period that included news reports about the death of a NSW woman, aged 52, from a severe form of the thrombosis with thrombocytopenia clotting disorder two weeks after receiving her first AstraZeneca dose. The Resolve Political Monitor only a small drop in the number of people who say they are hesitant about getting the coronavirus vaccine.“We’ve had 3.6 million doses of this vaccine [and] two tragic deaths but, other than that, mostly this has worked well and continues to work well and with great safety,” Chief Medical Officer Professor Paul Kelly said last week.
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