What is driving Australia’s vaccine hesitancy? - a podcast by The Age and Sydney Morning Herald

With the horror year of 2020 behind us, a light at the end of the coronavirus tunnel looked brighter at the dawning of 2021. Restrictions around the country were slowly lifting, new cases were dropping and a rollout that would see the entire country fully vaccinated by the end of the year had been announced.

But that vaccination program has been bungled with less than 2 million people receiving the jab after three months, and a small number of adverse reactions to AstraZeneca, Australia’s primary vaccine, has seen hesitancy around receiving the injection grow.

Today on Please Explain health reporter Melissa Cunningham joins Nathanael Cooper to look at the hesitation around receiving the vaccine in Australia.

Correction: The total reported Australian cases of thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS) is now 24, with 21 confirmed and three considered probable. About 2.1 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine have been administered so far.

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