Norman Swan
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first heard Mar 2020
last heard 11 Aug
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See you then.
And I'm physician and journalist, Doctor Norman Swan.
It's Friday the sixteenth of april two thousand and twenty one.
Well, we absolutely should, for the purposes of transparency.
Um we've got no idea what the HPP HPC, PPC, I always get that wrong, but the principal health committee talks about and how they make the decisions.
We've got no idea how the what what the evidence the infection control expert group rely on, which presumably allows our medical registrar, Princess Alexandra, following their guidelines to get infected by a COVID nineteen patient.
And we don't know what evidence Atagi, the Australian technical advisory.
group on immunisation relies upon, um because the deliberations aren't public.
Yes, and it was entirely in the open and the slides that were presented to the meeting were w were in public.
And in fact, we'll put those slides on our website, on the Chronicast website.
And you can see what w what deliberations they made.
And interestingly, their pause, which they say is going to be for seven to fourteen days, is not a permanent pause.
It's giving them it's giving them time to actually
look at the risks according to age group, do a proper risk-benefit analysis so that they've got the right decision making.
They still consider the Jansen vaccine, or it's also called Johnson ⁇ Johnson vaccine, to be an important part of ensuring vaccine equity, because in fact the j the Jansen vaccine in the United States was being used for disadvantaged groups where there's awkward booking processes, it's difficult to come forward.
And they are underpowered.
So the privileged and well off in America are getting vaccinated at high rates.
But when you look at the disadvantaged populations, it's it's it it's very low, around about twenty percent.
And the Johnson vaccine, Johnson and Johnson vaccine was seen as a solution for that, a single dose vaccine where you don't have to get people to come back for a second dose.
So it's still considered very important.
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