"If the govt had secured ample supplies of Pfizer the risk of blood clots would not be an issue. What galls is that the deaths from blood clots linked to Astra Zeneca could be avoided if the right vaccine had been available."
So should the government have acquired sufficient quantities of every Covid going, just in case one of them was a dud?
Three further questions arising:
1. What was - and still is, I believe - the World Health Organisation's advice on the AstraZeneca vaccine which, in at least some part, would have informed the basis for the Australian government going with AstraZzeneca?
2. Which other government(s) around the world bought sufficient stocks for their entire country's population of every vaccine that was developed?
3. If that "buy-as-many-vaccines-as-possible-just-in-case-one-is-a-dud" strategy was deployed by governments of countries that could afford to do so, what about the people living in poor countries who would go without vaccines as a result of the vaccine hoarding?
[I asked another poster, who was critical of the government's focus on AstraZenica, these same questions.... he/she is yet to respond. Maybe you will.]
