Another state expected to ditch COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers
The COVID-19 vaccine mandate for doctors and other health workers may be scrapped across NSW within weeks. State Minister for Health Ryan Park said while…
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COVID-19 vax no longer routinely recommended in kids
Healthy children and teenagers no longer need a primary course of COVID-19 vaccines or further boosters under the latest ATAGI advice. The update clarifies time…
Man has 217 COVID-19 vaccinations with no side effects: case study
Researchers have published a case report on a German man who, for “private reasons”, was vaccinated more than 200 times during the COVID-19 pandemic. He…
Former RACGP presidential candidate loses legal bid to ban mRNA vaccines
A former RACGP presidential candidate must pay legal costs to Pfizer and Moderna after losing a court case arguing that their COVID-19 vaccines were unlicensed…
Liberal Party selects doctor with ‘dangerous anti-vax views’ as candidate for looming election
Liberal Party bosses have defended their decision to select a doctor accused of “misleading and dangerous” COVID-19 anti-vaccination views as a candidate for the Tasmanian…
$19 million paid out under COVID-19 vax compo scheme
The Federal Government has compensated 256 patients for severe COVID-19 vaccine side effects under its vaccine claims scheme, which will close to new applicants on…
Pharmacy gives expired COVID-19 vaccines to hundreds of patients
A pharmacy in rural Tasmania has administered expired COVID-19 vaccinations to about 600 people over two years. The state’s health department said the issue at…
Four-year ban for GP who said doctors in COVID-19 vaccine rollout were ‘war criminals’
Dr Stephen Hindley has been banned for four years after telling a patient she would “get cancer and die” after she admitted having a COVID-19…
COVID-19 vaccines targeting current variants to be rolled out from December
Practices can order new monovalent COVID-19 vaccines that target circulating Omicron subvariants ahead of a mid-December rollout, the Federal Government has announced. Amid another surge…
Nurse sanctioned for secretly diluting COVID-19 vaccines with saline
A nurse diluted COVID-19 vaccines with saline after tricking a pharmacist into leaving the room during a vaccination appointment, a tribunal has found. The nurse…
