That means folks can get either Pfizer’s or Moderna’s booster as their third shot - it doesn’t matter which vaccine you had prior to this one. Health secretary Brendan Murphy also said ATAGI had approved the Moderna booster for people aged 18 and over, as The New Daily says. It means by the last day of the year, around four times as many people will be ready for their booster. The government has reduced the wait time for getting your COVID vaccine booster to five months, from the previous wait time of six months, the SMH reports. The sunshine state’s top cop said IT staff are on standby but warned the process would be “clunky”. Even though the date was set in stone for some time, the government released their border passes online just hours before the reopening, in fear of a system crash. Up to 50,000 cars and trucks are expected to cross over into the state in the next 24 hours. It comes as Queensland threw open their doors this morning, The Australian ($) reports, ending a five-month lockout of people in NSW and Victoria. Yesterday Western Australians would’ve seen a new government push for getting a third jab - interestingly, the booster ad included Perth captain Ashton Turner, even though WA’s summer of cricket was ruined by the government’s border stance, as Yahoo reported. New pressures to get vaccinated are popping up nearly weekly, however - WA’s AMA confirmed unvaccinated people are “not a priority” on their organ transplant list, The West ($) reports. Also, The West continues, just 43% of the Indigenous population has been double-vaxxed, a dismal figure. So why wait? Could be a few reasons: WA health modelling showed about 200 fewer people would die, and McGowan has said before he didn’t want venue limits and mask rules in place over Christmas. Of course, the national roadmap said open when you reach 80%, but The West forecasts WA’s reopening date as “seven or eight weeks away”. WA Premier Mark McGowan is this morning meeting with his Emergency Management Team to work out the reopening plan, which won’t take place until the 90% vaccination threshold is met, as 7News reports (the state has just reached 80%). The country’s most closed off state will today announce when it’ll finally open its borders, WA Today reports, after almost two years sealed in.
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