Top health official slams ‘noise’ over vaccine errors
Attention on overdoses and spoilt vaccines may mar confidence in the COVID-19 vax, warns Phil Gaetjens, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet secretary
Australia’s top bureaucrat has dismissed the focus on problems with the coronavirus vaccine rollout as “noise” that could undermine confidence.
The first week of vaccinations was marred by two elderly patients in Brisbane being hospitalised after they were administered four times the recommended dose.
Up to 150 doses of the Pfizer jab were thrown out in Victoria after concerns they had spoiled through not being refrigerated properly.
State governments have criticised the Federal Government’s distribution of doses and some nursing home residents waited for vaccines that didn’t show up.
