Vaccination hubs ‘essential’ for australia to reach herd immunity
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Apr 8, 2021 – 6.08pm Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe now Already a subscriber? Mass vaccination sites will be
essential if Australia is to reach herd immunity against COVID-19 by March next year, according to UNSW epidemiologist Mary-Louise McLaws. Professor McLaws, an adviser to the World Health
Organisation, said Australia would need to average 133,000 doses a day until the end of the year and 79,000 doses for the first quarter of 2022 to reach 85 per cent of the population and
achieve herd immunity by March. Loading... TOM BURTON was government editor at The Australian Financial Review. Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month
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