{"id":719,"date":"2023-04-10T16:34:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T14:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/?p=719"},"modified":"2024-06-10T16:10:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T14:10:12","slug":"australia-bans-the-use-of-the-astrazeneca-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/?p=719","title":{"rendered":"Australia bans the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We\u2019re all familiar with how the Australian government prevented Novak Djokovic from competing in the 2022 Australian open, kicking him out of the country and banning him from re-entry because he refused to be vaccinated for Covid.<\/p>\n<p>Now, they have egg on their face. The Australian government have had to withdraw the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_719_1('footnote_plugin_reference_719_1_1');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_719_1('footnote_plugin_reference_719_1_1');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_719_1_1\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[1]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_719_1_1\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.gov.au\/our-work\/covid-19-vaccines\/advice-for-providers\/clinical-guidance\/tts#astrazeneca-is-no-longer-available-in-australia\">Vaxzevria (AstraZeneca) vaccine and thrombosis with thrombocytopenia (TTS)<\/a><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_719_1_1').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_719_1_1', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], });<\/script> because it\u2019s killing people. The percentages are very low: 2 out of 100,000 people aged 60 and over and 2 to 3 out of 100,000 people under 60.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There is another interesting factoid, that Australia\u2019s fatality rate is lower than the rest of the world, because in their words, they started to realise the problem earlier than everyone else. Imagine what could have happened if Novak\u2019s PR team had got hold of that little piece of information.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Or perhaps they did, and that\u2019s the reason that Novak was allowed to play this year, eventually winning the championship.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"speaker-mute footnotes_reference_container\"> <div class=\"footnote_container_prepare\"><p><span role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_reference_container_label pointer\" onclick=\"footnote_expand_collapse_reference_container_719_1();\">References<\/span><span role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_reference_container_collapse_button\" style=\"display: none;\" onclick=\"footnote_expand_collapse_reference_container_719_1();\">[<a id=\"footnote_reference_container_collapse_button_719_1\">+<\/a>]<\/span><\/p><\/div> <div id=\"footnote_references_container_719_1\" style=\"\"><table class=\"footnotes_table footnote-reference-container\"><caption class=\"accessibility\">References<\/caption> <tbody> \r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_719_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_719_1_1');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_719_1_1\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>1<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.gov.au\/our-work\/covid-19-vaccines\/advice-for-providers\/clinical-guidance\/tts#astrazeneca-is-no-longer-available-in-australia\">Vaxzevria (AstraZeneca) vaccine and thrombosis with thrombocytopenia (TTS)<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n <\/tbody> <\/table> <\/div><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function footnote_expand_reference_container_719_1() { jQuery('#footnote_references_container_719_1').show(); jQuery('#footnote_reference_container_collapse_button_719_1').text('\u2212'); } function footnote_collapse_reference_container_719_1() { jQuery('#footnote_references_container_719_1').hide(); jQuery('#footnote_reference_container_collapse_button_719_1').text('+'); } function footnote_expand_collapse_reference_container_719_1() { if (jQuery('#footnote_references_container_719_1').is(':hidden')) { footnote_expand_reference_container_719_1(); } else { footnote_collapse_reference_container_719_1(); } } function footnote_moveToReference_719_1(p_str_TargetID) { footnote_expand_reference_container_719_1(); var l_obj_Target = jQuery('#' + p_str_TargetID); if (l_obj_Target.length) { jQuery( 'html, body' ).delay( 0 ); jQuery('html, body').animate({ scrollTop: l_obj_Target.offset().top - window.innerHeight * 0.2 }, 380); } } function footnote_moveToAnchor_719_1(p_str_TargetID) { footnote_expand_reference_container_719_1(); var l_obj_Target = jQuery('#' + p_str_TargetID); if (l_obj_Target.length) { jQuery( 'html, body' ).delay( 0 ); jQuery('html, body').animate({ scrollTop: l_obj_Target.offset().top - window.innerHeight * 0.2 }, 380); } }<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re all familiar with how the Australian government prevented Novak Djokovic from competing in the 2022 Australian open, kicking him out of the country and banning him from re-entry because he refused to be vaccinated for Covid. 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The Australian government have had to withdraw the use of the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/?p=719\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Australia bans the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[77,11,78],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1370,"href":"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/1370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}