‘This is not over’: Vaccine campaign, expanded eligibility for COVID antivirals as cases rise

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Around 160,000 extra Australians will be able to access subsidised COVID antiviral treatments from Saturday, as virus cases rise and the federal government launches a new ad campaign encouraging booster doses.

for Pfizer’s oral antiviral, Paxlovid, from this weekend, when a vaccination drive is also rolled out on television, social media and billboards.Health Minister Mark Butler said aged care cases had risen by about 65 per cent, antiviral prescriptions had risen by about 40 per cent, and while there were fewer hospitalisations from COVID than in the peak of the summer wave, there had been a slow and small uptick over the last five weeks.

Less than half of the eligible population has had their fourth COVID dose going into winter although that figure is much higher – 75 per cent or more – for groups over 70-years-old.that shifted booster eligibility away from how many doses a person had, to how many months it had been since their last dose or infection.

 

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