Australia is unlikely to achieve herd immunity because of vaccine hesitancy and the infectiousness of new variants, a new study says.
"You can't just say, 'we're vaccinated, let it rip, guys'," she said.
"Since November, we've had on average of one quarantine leak every 11 days, and that's continuing," he said.more than 5.2 million vaccine doses have been administeredbut the bulk of these vaccines won't arrive until the end of this yearWith this time frame in mind, plus the 12-week wait between dose one and dose two of AstraZeneca, Professor Toole said it was inevitable there would be more lockdowns before the bulk of Australians were fully vaccinated.
Murdoch University professor of immunology Cassandra Berry said the higher Australia's vaccination rate was, the less restrictive future lockdowns were likely to be.
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