Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese called on the government to do more to ensure both young and old got vaccinated in a timely manner.
Yesterday the head of the vaccine rollout, Lieutenant General John Frewen, encouraged parents to try pharmacies and state-run vaccination hubs if appointments with doctors could not go ahead. "We are working very closely with all the general practices which are involved in the rollout to make sure that general practices have the stock that they need," he said.Some GPs have questioned why the number of doses they can order for children from the federal government have been restricted.Anna Davidson questioned why she could not get more doses for her Port Stephens clinic, which is allocated 100 vaccines for children per fortnight.
"It's an impossibility to try and think about how we are going to vaccinate all the children before school when 50 vaccines a week doesn't cut it.
Not true
I’d be panicking at the thought that any parent would willingly give this totally experimental injection At least do the research Why since giving these injections have they normalised heart issues for five year olds Even advertising it on billboards Be a critical thinker
WRONG
This should be reported as misleading.
Yeah right so why appointments being cancelled?
This is all very ‘Don’t Look Up’.
Also, we wouldn’t be panicking if our elected officials weren’t hell bent of letting this virus rip with no restrictions in place to protect our kids. The fact that they have screwed up every other vaccine rollout doesn’t help with our anxiety either.
Even if by some way of a miracle they get every child vaccinated once, it’s still not enough protection, they need two. Why are people forgetting that they need two?
Just can't get them to them hey?
Bullsh*t
Is this another “we’re at the front of the queue” situation?
CGWJS54139911 If they went back to school in june.
This is a load of crap based on every report I have seen today from people trying to vaccinate their kids. Maybe we have enough vaccines, but they are not *getting to where they need to be*. Perhaps another casualty of the paralysed freight industry?
Maybe we should refer you to your own ABCFactCheck eh? Maybe a reality check might wake you guys up into stop believing everything coming out of the Government offices in Canberra.
2,300,000 kids need a jab… ghunt was bragging about 1.52% get shots… school goes back on the 28/01/22.. 17 days away… multiply that by the 1.52%… 25.86%… a quarter of the goal.. another mass failure of the ScottyThePathologicalLiar
Lies, lies and more lies.
False. Some practices here said likely March
Absolutely not true. We can't even book until March and no guarantee that stock will be available.
Having ‘enough vaccine’ is NOT the same as having the delivery mechanisms in place to get them in school children’s arms. I’m not convinced there ARE enough vaccines, but I sure as hell can SEE the GP ofcs, the pharmacies, and the hospitals are overwhelmed. Domicrom & Scovid
And yet that's not true.
Not in Adelaide. Not enough appointments. Failure by marshall_steven and the LiberalAus
😆 no one is panicking! No one but the ones you've scared to death are lining their kids up for thos poison...ffs
A mathematically impossible claim. 8 weeks between first and second dose then 1-2 weeks for it to be effective
WA health professionals and the premier have stated that promised paediatric doses have not arrived, where are they? Whoever wrote this piece, and posted this to the ABC news site, is a propagandist.
Bullshit and outright lies.
There isn't though
Poor kids
Where are they
Rubbish - providers are cancelling appts everywhere. Do you research and get your facts straight rather than parroting official government lines.
Correction: [maybe] enough to [partially] vaccinate [some] kids. Kids won't be protected on the return to school.
Was booked in for 7yo's vax tomorrow, but clinic had to cancel after only 200 /1000 doses were delivered... This is what? Day 2 of roll out? FAILURE ScoMo
Ok go online and find me one then before school starts. You can’t
Sure. Sounds very much like the crew saying there are enough lifeboats on the Titanic whilst the band played “Nearer My God to Thee”….
Uncritical repetition of lies isn’t actually helpful. auspol
What unmitigated bullshit! GPs & Pharmacies are reporting a lack of deliveries & no ETA on them. Vaccine-mediated immunity is achieved 2 wks after full vaccination which is 2 shots 8 weeks apart. 5-11 year olds cannot be vaccinated when it is 7 weeks til they return to school.
More lies by GregHuntMP
What's the point of having enough jabs in anywhere other than in the arms? That's where we are rn. Enough jabs but not where they should be. As usual, this govt made an 'announcement' and then scrambles chaotically, hurting everyone, giving anxieties. VoteThemOut
Lies.
God the bed wetting in the city is astounding.
Ahh yeah. Not panicking actually. In fact, covid, and the likelihood of my child getting sick or worse from covid is so far down my list of things to panic about I need binoculars to see it. Apparently the ABC doesn’t trust the science.
If the only source is a government spokesperson there shouldn't be an article.
What are the long term side effects on children, alot of doctors are against this!
Well we don’t have any…..
There might be enough jabs but the people administering them don’t have any! What not to understand? Maybe Hillsong has that as well as RATs for sale?
'Anna Davidson questioned why she could not get more doses for her Port Stephens clinic, which is allocated 100 vaccines for children per fortnight. 'It takes an hour and a half to give our vaccines for the week [for children] and then I cannot order again,' she said.'
This is bullshit … stop reporting this like it’s fact; it’s not. We don’t even know what one dose will do in any case; Nothing the Feds/ Morrison GHunt have said has turned out to be true; They have lied and mislead consistently AlboForPM
If it makes anyone feel better, I’ll make sure the jabs allocated to my kids will be available for someone else. Just doin my bit….
Why are you repeating this govt bs when I have heard heaps of people ringing to your radio shows saying their appts cancelled due no supply. Put 2+2 together. covid ThisisNotJournalism
No need to vaccinate either. Covid-19 causes little or no illness in young children, so why would you vaccinate young children against it? Either you are a hypochondriac helicopter parent, or you would instrumentalise your own children to further protect already vaccinated adults
'It's not a race' all over again. Vaccines don't kick in immediately takes a week or two.
Just here for the ratio, but seriously guys, turn off the fucking Reuters and AP wires, and ask the parents in the office, or check a calendar. Mine won't be vaccinated until at least April the 1st (two weeks post dose two). How does this get them to school on Jan 28th?
Haven’t we heard this story before? How long will it be before the message refers to supermarkets? They just can’t be trusted.
Complicit yet again.
That’s because school has been deferred ?
What about N95 masks? What about the teachers and staff? Are they all triple vaxxed? What about ventilation and air monitors?
This is a lie
No there is not, that is a flat out lie.
Lol - if being told not to panic by ClotMo the Clown, or Hunt, or the stooges Frewen, Kelly or Murphy there is definitely cause to panic !
Yep, that's why there are so many cancellations. More lies from this deplorable govt.
Rang the GP to make appts for the kids and was told their supplies haven't turned up and they're having to reschedule everyone, so yeah, not so sure about that, ABC.
And the 2/3 week period needed for the vaccine to work?
This may assist
ABC government propaganda unit on duty as normal.
Helping the LNP lie their way through another botched disaster. Class.
Even if there is, and it gets to centres/clincs/pharmacies is there lead time to become effective? And I presume children require the second dose.
C’mon Don’t take us for fools. Kids will not have protection before school starts. Even those who got their 1st dose yesterday, need to wait another 8 weeks to get their 2nd, then 2 more weeks for it to kick in. That’s 10 weeks until full vaccination is achieved.
Dear ABC, Citizens of Oz know being told “there is opportunity” to vaxx the kids - while GP’s/pharmacies cancel or have ltd bookings & rpt supply uncertainty - is like being told the wizard will save us. The wizard is fake. We lack glass slippers. Rpt non-fiction please. auspol
This headline is misleading . Seeing as kids aged 5 to 11 need two doses with at least eight weeks in between, they are only going to be partly vaccinated by the time they return to school at the end of Jan (if they can even manage to get the first one). CovidVaccine
Enough to vaccinate ALL children or just the ones the government will let us keep?
This is NOT TRUE!!!!! Do your job, ABC, and stop parroting LNP propaganda.
Takes 2 weeks from the jab to be a little protected. They need it right now but kids are being cancelled. Fail. Delay school start.
Are they quoting 'we're in no rush to buy the vaccine', Morrison?
This is BS - pharmacies and GP's cancelling appts left right and centre.
The vaccine appointment cancellations did not happen, everything is great.
Who's panicking?
Cue all epidemiology enthusiasts
Kids will at best will only be half vaccinated by the start of school.
Stop with your BS !
I literally took my children in today to be vaccinate - an appointment made mid Dec - only to be told today it had been rescheduled because they didn't have enough. I work retail as does their stepmum, every day we risk infecting them. AnotherMorrisonFailure
And no, there aren't enough jabs to vax kids before they go back to school. One dose doesn't mean they're vaccinated.
Don't panic. General Freewind (sic) and ScottMorrisonMP said there are no supply issues. Now what's Morrison's nickname. LIARFROMTHESHIRE
What parents are told, and the reality of that statement are two completely different things.
What's the truth abc Listen to the ppl
No need to panic? Don't think anyone's panicking. We're just pissed off, that's all.
How many times has the Federal Govt said the same & similar lies before? Let's start with the PM and Greg Hunt stating Australia led the World in ordering Pfizer in 2020 only to find out they lied, hadn't put in an order & Pfizer officially verified that fact. Do better
Who is telling us, so we know what to actually believe?
When the government tells us there's no need to panic...means shits getting real.
check out the comparison to then and now
Where are they?
When, they day before they start school? Because there is not today, and apparently not this week. Think we all recall earlier advice that coverage took a few weeks.
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Parents you have every right to panic. Your kids will attend school unvaccinated amongst vaccinated kids. Who do you think will get the virus first?
FO , sick of your government propaganda, why don’t you do some real investigative journalism and see what the real truth is out there!! 😡😡
There probably are enough jabs - trouble is they are not located at the places they need to be i.e. the places that actually give the jabs.
As a teacher and parent, I believe this government have done too little, too late. Stop telling us how to behave. It’s not about ‘panicking’, or saying - it’s about a government that ‘Let it Rip’ irresponsibly over the past 6 weeks and now our kids are still going back, DAY 1
No way can they be fully vaccinated ie PROTECTED, before schools commence.
Sadly, not true.
There may be enough does in a warehouse somewhere but why are they not delivered to where they are needed and can be administered? Another Morrison fail and stuff up
Vaccines first and then school to ensure more protection against the Virus and FREE RATTS for all Australians.
ABC posting the LNP bullshit again. Everything is ok, we've got it under control. Meanwhile The country has no vaccines for kids, no tests for adults and there's nothing in the fucking supermarkets. LetItRip working out real well.
Government announcements should not be reported as accurate information. They are more of a wish list.
If you are a parent and panicking that your 99.98% safe from COVID child won't be in the first wave of myocarditis victims, you need a psychologist.
Who can forget « the eagle has landed » before the supply debacle.
Jump online and try and book one then. Let me know how you've got on? GP's with a 10km radius of my home, earliest 3rd Feb. State run vac's hub drip feeding appointments when cancellations occur - my lived experience for 3 hours this morning.
Just stop selling lies The reality isn't matching up with what you peanuts are dishing up Just stop ScottMorrisonMP is finished AustralianLabor will be our new government led by AlboMP Time to stop the megaphone style reporting directly from prime ministers office AlboForPM
Reverse psychology
Why copy and paste something that is patently untrue.
Okay? What about all of these messages being sent to parents?
Right with a line of 4h minimum
Ummm. My GP does not have supply. Does not know when they will get it. Keep timing us they say…. Zero confidence
The ammount of terrible parents in this thread, how many children have died from covid without any other conditions..... I'm pretty sure it's close to zero, where as numerous people even athletes are getting all sorts of sicknesses even death
That’s a lie
Don’t make your useless vaccines sound like hot cakes came out of oven.
This is the best way to get the kid vax numbers up, get everyone into a panic to get it done. Waste of ti e anyway just relax ppl.
And survival is even higher for kids
Can you please start reporting the truth. There are NOT enough .
Kids should worry more about getting a disablity from the ---
Why on earth would anyone believe this government at this point?
Never will the ABC live down this crime.
But there obviously isn't enough, this many parents saying appts are cancelled is proof, or does the ABC just believe what the LNP say.
Actually, there's 'No need to panic' coz' kids aren't at risk from Covid! We're talking 1/10,000 chance of having comorbidities serious enough to result in death.
Same as your kids and teachers will all be “safe” when they go back to the classroom. Only a complete imbecile believes any word the Federal and State LNP spouts. Just look at the last two years to see that talking BS is their main “gold” standard approach to all things.
Then why are appointments being cancelled countrywide?
Can someone remind the govt that you need people (who are not sick) to administer vaccines, so that may be be where the problem lies.
Am sick of the leaders, pollies etc patronising trivialising remarks re people worried re the badly managed current covid tsunami in Oz. Parents are rightfully highly concerned & angry, not 'panicking'. ScottytheFailure ScottyFromMarketing ScottMorrison auspol Perrottet
But will there be enough appointments and resources to deliver the vaccines before end of month? What protection will first dose provide as they return to school by end Jan? Hollow assurances
Child abuse at its finest
The bigger issue is that our kids will not be fully vaxxed by the time school starts hence our kids will not be fully protected!
PatsKarvelas
This is an illegal party political boardcast on the ABC by the logistically challenged LNP.
Where are they. Why do gps have to cancel appt
Do they mean 'kids' as in 'Jen & the girls'? 🤨 I'm hearing a lot of appointments cancelled due to no supply delivered 🤔 LNPfail
Why?
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