Mes: enero 2021

The vaccine hopes of millions of people worldwide are hanging on the Pfizer vaccine, but the supply of the shot is facing delays. Why? Well, it relies on a whole lot of things that have never happened before all happening at once, in perfect sequence. It’s the first approved mRNA […]

In news that has been eagerly awaited since the pandemic began, a coronavirus vaccine has finally been approved for use in Australia. Yesterday, the Therapeutic Goods Administration gave the mRNA vaccine the thumbs up, paving the way for its rollout for key vulnerable groups. But Australia won’t have enough Pfizer […]

Today marks one year since coronavirus officially reached our shores and changed our lives forever. On January 25, 2020, Victorian health authorities detected the first case of COVID-19 in a man who had flown in from Guandong province a few days earlier. On today’s Coronacast, Dr Norman Swan and Tegan […]

In a global context, Australia is in an incredibly privileged position when it comes to the coronavirus vaccine rollout. Case numbers are very low and we’re once again getting close to eliminating local spread, so we have time to monitor how the Pfizer vaccine is working in other countries. We […]