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#Vaccine stockpile full

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews also alluded to the talk, saying on Tuesday: “I wish we were doing this press conference in a warehouse that was full of tens of millions of doses of Pfizer, Moderna, Novavax.” Brad Hazzard said he had “never been told” about a stockpile.

#Vaccine stockpile code

“I am worried that maybe is just code for the fact that they took out of other people’s allocations,” he claimed. Northern Territory Chief Minister Michael Gunner said he too was “not aware of a national stockpile” of vaccines, and hoped it was just “a very poorly chosen set of words” from Professor Kidd. Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan said on Monday a stockpile would be “news to us”, telling the federal government “if you have spare Pfizer, please give it to us”. Talk of “reserves” pricked the ears of several state and territory leaders, who said they were under the impression that every dose received by the government – of either locally produced AstraZeneca, or Pfizer imported from overseas – was being distributed. “The Commonwealth will constantly assess requests against any reserves held by the Commonwealth,” deputy chief medical officer Professor Michael Kidd said on Saturday. The discussion has been bubbling for days, sparked by an extra 50,000 Pfizer doses being sent to NSW as part of an ’emergency allocation’. Where did the vaccine stockpile talk begin? However, Canberra denies it is hoarding doses, and that any “unallocated” jabs are sent out as soon as possible. It may come to an issue of semantics that what the states call a “stockpile” is what the federal government calls “unallocated doses” from Pfizer shipments that are sometimes larger than expected. “That is a simple supply and demand issue. “There are small variations in supply and delivery, which from time to time may ensure that there’s tens of thousands of doses that might be free at any given time,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison said.

So is there a stockpile of vaccines sitting in a warehouse somewhere?įederal Health Minister Greg Hunt and vaccine rollout co-ordinator Lieutenant-General John Frewen say no, but that hasn’t stopped the talk.