Thursday: Dentists, podiatrists and midwives could deliver Covid jabs. Plus: Australia picks up 15th gold in Tokyo
Good morning. A bold new plan for Australia to hit its vaccination targets, the gold medal blitz continues in Tokyo, and recompense for the stolen generations – these stories and more in Thursday’s morning mail.
Dentists, speech pathologists and podiatrists could be pressed into relieving a “fatigued and burnt out” vaccination workforce under a proposal put forward by the government’s Covid taskforce chief. Flagging “workforce constraints” as a major impediment to Australia’s chances of reaching an 80% vaccination target by the end of the year, Lt Gen John Frewen suggested that other health workers could help administer vaccines, with health students another ready alternative. The Delta variant now spreading throughout Sydney is becoming “an epidemic of younger people”, a leading epidemiologist has warned. Prof Greg Dore says “a large proportion in their 20s and 30s” are becoming hospitalised during this coronavirus wave due to the higher vaccination rate among older Australians. Meanwhile, Aboriginal health organisations have expressed concerns that a lack of data is covering over “big gaps” in vaccination rates in regional communities, and frontline health workers have raised errors with the Australian immunisation register.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/aug/05/morning-mail-vaccination-plan-medal-blitz-stolen-generation-payouts
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