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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK May 18

      6/n So an alternative headline for this piece could've been "More than two-thirds of Australian adults already vaccinated or planning on getting one soon" In my opinion, that would be an entirely reasonable reading of the data presented

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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK May 18

      7/n I also strongly disagree that the people saying that they are unlikely to get vaccinated "in the coming months" is necessarily a sign of vaccine hesitancy at all

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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK May 18

      8/n If you look at the REASONS that people give for not thinking they'll get immunized soon, some are legitimate concerns but some are also literally factual reporting based on the current phased rollout in Australiapic.twitter.com/03R3w6B1tH

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    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK May 18

      9/n It also looks as if a reasonable portion of those waiting for a vaccine are worried about Astrazeneca and thus would rather get Pfizer/Moderna later this year. This is not your traditional vaccine hesitancy!pic.twitter.com/pI1kYuS7sn

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    5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK May 18

      10/n Indeed, if we are to believe the survey results, they are actually very optimistic (if perhaps a touch impossible)! 22% of all adults vaccinated in Aus, with another 13% getting their shots soon, would be a good sign

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    6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK May 18

      11/n I'm not sure the results are entirely possible, sadly. The government reports 3.2m shots so far. Even assuming they're all first doses, and all given to adults that's only 16% of the est 19.7m (19,753,290 per ABS) adults in the countrypic.twitter.com/XdUzCX43PW

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    7. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK May 18

      12/n More likely, in my opinion, is that the survey was slightly biased, or that there is a reasonably wide margin of error in the reports

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    8. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK May 18

      13/n Regardless, I think it's fair to say that, based on these results, Australians on the whole are very keen to get their COVID-19 shots even if they are thinking of waiting a few months until more Pfizer and Moderna doses are available

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    9. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK May 18

      14/n All of this comes with the caveat that I can only look at the data presented in the article, and without detailed info on the survey methodology I cannot say anything with a great deal of certainty

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    10. IrmaGherd (Retired Nurse Thug) ✳ 💉 💉‏ @maureenchuck1 May 18
      Replying to @GidMK

      There seems to be a lot of people who say they're going to wait until the end of the year when we get more Pfizer vaccines. What people don't realise is those vaccines will probably be given to children because those clinical trials should be finished by then.

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK May 18
      Replying to @maureenchuck1

      I'm not sure that's true, but I do think that the waiting is something that we could potentially address better. I also understand it even though I personally got Astrazeneca

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        1. Richard EB‏ @EscoboomVanilla May 18
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          Look at Canada I'd suggest - data shows the more people get vaccinated, the more the "waiting" group vaccinates. Seems true for our "hesitant" atm. Also "hesitant" needs definition before discussion; lots of respectable ppl talking past each other.

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