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As the vaccine rollout expands again, this time to allow all Australians aged over 12 to access Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, Lieutenant General John Frewen has said the campaign has reached “an inflection point”.
Speaking to the ABC, Frewen said those who have been holding out, waiting for access to Pfizer or Moderna have been “putting themselves at risk for many months”, but he stressed that vaccine supply was no longer an issue:
It’s an inflection point in the campaign where we go from the supply drivers to the demand drivers. The challenge ahead of us, and there are many challenges, is about people coming forward.
Overseas, we’ve seen that you can get to 70% but you’ve got to work hard to get to 80% and, if we have any aspirations to get to 90%, that’s a long, hard road.
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