It may seem tempting to try to match the UK’s zero-tariff deal. But here’s why it’s not worth compromising on what Australians pay for essential medicines.
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The US is Australia’s biggest export market for pharmaceuticals. If the tariffs go ahead, manufacturing could suffer.
If Australians won’t take the AstraZeneca vaccine, we must donate it to save lives elsewhere, especially while we queue-jump for more Pfizer doses.
The government should be explicit about what proportion of the population will need to be vaccinated to warrant border reopening. Australians could then measure progress towards that goal.
If the vaccine had been widely rolled out, people would think they had HIV when they didn’t. But it’s not the end of this type of technology.
So-called mRNA vaccines are among the frontrunners in the global race to design a COVID vaccine. But as a new technology, most nations, including Australia, lack the capacity to produce them at scale.
The Australian government is working with two major pharmaceutical companies to facilitate the local production and supply of two different COVID-19 vaccines – if they’re proven to be effective.
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Chief Executive, National Health and Medical Research Council
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Professor (Adjunct) in Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, Australian National University
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Hon Prof, Dept of Child & Adolescent Health, University of Sydney
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow, The University of Western Australia
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Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University
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Early Career Research Leader, Emerging Viruses, Inflammation and Therapeutics Group, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University
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Infectious Diseases Physician, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney; Scientia Professor, Kirby Institute, UNSW
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Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Trade Law and Taxation, Queensland University of Technology