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"During a pandemic, the Australian Government must ensure that everyone is looked after" This brief has NOT been met. #NovavaxForAustralia #HealthEquity #NoOneLeftBehind #auspol

🧵So... If you ring the TGA and speak to whoever answers, and say, "we need Novavax, I can't get vaccinated, I unfortunately didn't tolerate Pfizer" etc, do you know what they tell you? We have 255 business days to approve. That's a WHOLE YEAR in case anyone was wondering. 1/

For a rapidly evolving, constantly circulating virus causing at least TWO waves per year. Am I supposed to be reassured by this? Sitting on a waned bivalent administered in 2023, that if it gets before the TGA, they have a year to approve a strain upgrade? Mark Butler MP 2/

Do you know what will potentially happen in a WHOLE YEAR? The vaccine they approve will no longer be manufactured‼️ How is this a 'fit for pandemic' system? How can we, the public waiting, KNOW the urgent NEED is being met with urgency? 3/

Singapore switched within a HANDFUL OF WEEKS from DEPLOYING the XBB Novavax we didn't get, to DEPLOYING the JN1 Novavax we are still waiting to be officially submitted for approval. End/

Jason Clare MP Promises? Is this a sick joke? Your government promised no one left behind. So where is #NovavaxForAustralia AS ANOTHER COVID WAVE HITS?

Anita White. NOVAVAX 4🇦🇺 😷 Note Pfizer gets a special super speedy path to expedited approval & distribution Novavax will likely time out every time like it did with XBB as they stop production of old versions before Aus approval & we miss out UNLESS Butler makes it a priority & expedited approval

Sue J We need an Emergency Authorisation Facility /Provisional Approval for strain upgrades for medically intolerant, and local manufacture. I'd rather take a vaccine in this category than NOTHING. The risk benefit for me is in favour of vaccination. Mark Butler MP needs to act.

🇹🇭Thailand: "The total number of COVID cases so far this year has reached 257,280, with 52 reported fatalities." New COVID-19 variant NB.1.8.1 drives cases, hitting working-age adults, students, children, and the elderly hardest. Source: archive.md/O7BhD

Queensland Weekly Respiratory Surveillance Report: 2 June 2025 Reported cases: 🔹COVID: 977 (+45.6%) 🔹Influenza: 1,234 (+5.7%) 🔹RSV: 873 (+8.7%) Hospitalisations: 🔸COVID: 94 (+74.0%) 🔸Influenza: 65 (+12.0%) 🔸RSV: 46 (+15.0%) Source: health.qld.gov.au/clinical-pract…

Worrying new COVID variant NB.1.8.1, wreaking havoc in China, is now in Victoria. COVID cases in Victoria jumped 55% in late May as NB.1.8.1 variant wreaking havoc in China hit Victoria. Flu cases rose 45% & RSV infections jumped 19.3% in the same week. archive.md/cqHdN

Back at work for a spell (out of retirement) to help out. Train still sux. More WFH from now on. Why can't we fix air quality on public transport? V/Line Such low hanging fruit to improve public health, cut airborne disease & keep people out of hospitals, alive and not disabled.

Wendy 🇨🇦 Interesting 👆Victorian Department of Health Chief Health Officer, Victoria Australian Dept of Health, Disability and Ageing FYI re Canada. The current Australian system has left me with no access to Covid vaccine protection during multiple waves now. #NovavaxForAustralia

🧵Taiwan shortens gap for medically vulnerable people to 60 days between Covid vaccines in a surge. 1/

Western Australia: Respiratory infections soar in WA. By Rachel Fenner Flu cases hit 6,983 (up from 3,068 in 2024), whooping cough 822 (was 171 in 2024), RSV 1,619 (was 1,376 in 2024). COVID hospitalisations now average 60 a day. Source: archive.md/B3qeu

🇹🇼 Taiwan shortens COVID vaccine gap to 2 months for high-risk groups. Starting June 11, seniors 65+, Indigenous people 55–64, and immunocompromised individuals may get a second JN.1 dose after 2 months due to waning protection. Source: archive.md/cjKMh

Queensland: Covid Rates Surge 30% Amid New Strain Spread. "Almost two thousand people reported testing positive, and more than 320 people have been hospitalised for COVID in the past fortnight" Source: miragenews.com/covid-rates-su…

If you've been noticing a lot of work colleagues off sick, lots of out-of-office bounces in your email, can't get a doctors appointment or lots of people coughing, you are not imagining it. But it's okay "Increases in respiratory disease activity is typical for this time of year"

How gut inflammation can induce brain inflammation nature.com/articles/s4158… nature

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