{"id":57781,"date":"2024-12-07T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/maintenance.html\/?p=57781"},"modified":"2024-12-07T18:20:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T07:20:00","slug":"australians-abandon-failed-mrna-covid-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=57781","title":{"rendered":"Australians Abandon Failed mRNA Covid Shots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57782\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Daily_Covid_19_Shots.jpg\" alt=\"Daily Covid 19 Shots\" width=\"696\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Daily_Covid_19_Shots.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Daily_Covid_19_Shots-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After climbing the world leaderboard during the initial Covid vaccine rollout to achieve over\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aihw.gov.au\/reports\/australias-health\/immunisation-and-vaccination\">95% vaccination coverage<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/news.rebekahbarnett.com.au\/p\/australians-abandon-failed-mrna-covid#footnote-1-141426138\">1<\/a>\u00a0Australians have turned their back on boosters, with the vast majority now \u2018under-vaccinated\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Just 1.7 million, or 8.5% of Australia\u2019s 20.1 million adults have had Covid booster in the past six months, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.gov.au\/sites\/default\/files\/2024-02\/covid-19-vaccine-rollout-update-9-february-2024.pdf\">latest Australian Government update<\/a>\u00a0(as at 7 February). In contrast, 18.1 million, or 90% had at least one vaccination previously, but have not kept up-to-date.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/richardsonpost.com\/rebekah-barnett\/35010\/australians-abandon-failed-mrna-covid-shots\/\">https:\/\/richardsonpost.com\/rebekah-barnett\/35010\/australians-abandon-failed-mrna-covid-shots\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After climbing the world leaderboard during the initial Covid vaccine rollout to achieve over\u00a095% vaccination coverage,1\u00a0Australians have turned their back on boosters, with the vast majority now \u2018under-vaccinated\u2019. Just 1.7 million, or 8.5% of Australia\u2019s 20.1 million adults have had Covid booster in the past six months, according to the\u00a0latest Australian Government update\u00a0(as at 7 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=57781\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Australians Abandon Failed mRNA Covid Shots&#8221;<\/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":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57783,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57781\/revisions\/57783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}