News: Australia's New South Wales reports 1,331 new COVID-19 cases, page-3

"I wonder how many of these deaths would have been averted had we
actually been first in the queue for vaccines?"

None? The double-jabbed are still dying.

"I wonder how some responsible for this failure manage to sleep at night?"

Ask deadly Dan Andrews who was responsible for 800+ deaths.

"The only consolation is that its better late than never and hopefully
as the great bulk of the population is finally vaccinated things will
improve"

What are you basing that on? Just hope?

"albeit I do fear for the unvaccinated"

We'll be right, you do you. Jab away.