Originally Posted by
rooter
The stocks of Astra Zeneca will expire on the shelves or maybe we will donate them to a Third World nation.
The simple fact is the Australian population do not want Astra Zeneca.
They are fearful of the clots or have doubts about it's effectiveness over new strains and they don't like that the shots have to be 12 weeks apart.
So they are trying to get Pfizer.
Even if there is several weeks delay for Pfizer they figure they will still be fully vaccinated (ie two shots) quicker than getting Astra Zeneca now and another one in 12 weeks time.
Or they figure they will wait for new supplies of Pfizer to arrive next month and still be all finished up quicker than getting Astra Zeneca now.
Whether these fears, doubts, strategies etc are well founded is another story, but the fact is this is how people are thinking.
Basically the Federal Government fucked up in basing it's vaccination strategy too heavily on Astra Zeneca and not buying those 20 million doses of Pfizer when they we offered. Of course we are all wiser with the benefit of hindsight.
The game changer will be if there is a major outbreak of covid again - I mean hundreds or even thousands of cases daily, and a few dozen deaths.
If that happens then people will panic and will settle for any sort of vaccination, taking the anything is better than nothing approach.
The best strategy is to not wait for a major outbreak, but to get in now and get any sort of vaccination you can and start building up immunity and Astra Zeneca will definitely do the job.
But people are not always rational and logical.