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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 […]

Joe Biden has been sworn into office early this morning and now faces a monstrous battle to get COVID under any semblance of control. Yesterday, according to Johns Hopkins University, the US recorded more than 400,000 coronavirus deaths since the pandemic began. As the weeks pass and the pandemic spreads, […]

An analysis of NSW coronavirus clusters has found the state’s COVID-19 outbreak could almost be at an end. The ABC looked at 18 coronavirus outbreaks in NSW since July last year and found that it takes authorities three weeks on average to bring an end to each cluster. That means […]

While the deaths of elderly people who had received the Pfizer vaccine in Norway has dominated the headlines, it’s worth taking a step back and taking a broader look of the worldwide rollout to date. Millions and millions of doses of the Pfizer vaccine have now been given to people […]

As vaccines are injected into millions of arms across the world, authorities are watching closely to see if there are any unexpected side effects. And a higher than expected number of deaths in frail and elderly Pfizer vaccine recipients in Norway is drawing scrutiny. The Norwegian Medicines Agency last week […]