Optimism grows over Australia’s vaccine rollout

Some 14.7 million vaccine doses have been administered by GPs and GP nurses
Professor Robert Booy
Professor Robert Booy.

History will look kindly on Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout despite its troubled start, as it tracks towards some of the highest vaccination rates in the world, a leading immunisation expert says.

Back in July, former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull described the vaccination program as the biggest “black-and-white failure of public administration” he could recall.