Can Australians get an approved coronavirus jab before March? It's up to the drug companies

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Even if the Federal Government secures regulatory approval for COVID-19 vaccines before its planned timeline of March, it will be up to drug companies to decide whether Australians will receive doses early.

The Chief Medical Officer says even if approvals arrive earlier, it will be up to the drug companies about whether they can deliver Australia's vaccine order earlier

Other countries have already commenced their rollouts, but the Australian Government has said it is still working on approvals. Australia has pre-purchased vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech, Oxford/AstraZeneca and Novavax, but the latter won't be available until later in the year.

 

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Actually it’s up to the TGA - not the “drug companies”.

If both US and UK can approve Pfizer vaccine, why can not AU just recognize their approval? Do you think you are smater? Beaucratic

rationaliza The more people who take it before it is *mandated is fine by me. Sheeple.

You stuffed up the headline by adding 'approved'!

First quarter 2021 - up till March 31 for supply. This is going to spin a lot more than a centrifuge.......

Not while those shiny arced administrative wankers keep holding their meeting. Time to piss them off of release the vaccine.

Surely it's up to scottyfromarketing and election timing. We can't get inoculated too far before he tries to scam another election win

We were unambiguously told last November (look it up) that CSL had commenced production of the Astra-Zeneca vaccine. Now we are told that it will commence production after the arrival of foreign/produced Astra-Zeneca. What’s going on?

Your headline doesn’t match the content of the article. Professor Kelly says it rests with the pharmaceutical companies, but then with some dissonance, says it’s all conditional on approval and testing currently under way by the TGA. He’s covering for the politicians.

Is the government purposely holding back the inevitable (that Ivermectin will be widely acknowledged as an effective prophylaxis and early treatment for Covid) so that the vaccine gets widely used ?

Is the TGA going to disapprove the jab? And say England, Europe and America are putting their people are risk. I am thinking that we have been told to wait in line. ScoMo won't tell us that though

What's another way you could report this? C'mon, think for a moment...... Maybe less announceables and more action from the governing parties?

The vaccine PR story. Dumb Australians sucked into another dead fish. There is no pandemic in Australia so why need a vaccine if not a vulnerable or wanting to travel overseas? Oh that’s right cannot travel overseas. Dumb Australia

It's not actually - it's up to the bureaucrats in the TGA.

It must be so !! stop_travelban_Australiatemporaryskilledmigrants

will be better to roll it out closer to flu season where they can get more respiratory illness deaths will be able to pump up the fear thru the media and get the maximum take up of the new type of vaccine with unknown side effects for the virus with a 99% plus survival rate

You Can Stick Your Covaids Vaccine Up Your Arse!🎵🎶

Ivermectin stops the virus, as per Australian expert Prof Thomas Borody borody

that is the very reason this virus will drag on even with a vaccine . because everyone will not have access to the vaccine or be willing to take it .

Morrison has to stop the bullshit announcement’s

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