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The former Morrison government's planning for Australia's COVID-19 vaccine rollout was not "timely", it underestimated how difficult it would be to protect aged care and disability residents and failed to adequately engage with the states and territories before the rollout began, a damning review has found.

‘Even having had Omicron, we’re not well protected from further infections,’ said Prof Danny Altmann

National audit report on vaccine rollout found planning ‘was not timely’ and distribution to priority populations had not ‘met targets’

How are social media platforms managing vaccine misinformation at this stage in the pandemic?

Health officials are scrambling to stretch scarce doses of vaccine to slow the mounting monkeypox outbreak, but do older people already vaccinated as kids for the related but deadlier smallpox virus already have protection?

The report suggests that the BCG tuberculosis vaccine can significantly strengthen the immune system

Britain became the first country to approve a “bivalent” jab on Monday that directly targets Omicron and the original Covid-19 strain - as 29 million people will initially be invited for the vaccine

Editorial: The emergence of cases in the UK, US and elsewhere is a warning that the progress made in curbing the disease must be protected

Roughly 29 million people are eligible for an autumn booster but there are just 13 million doses of the new bivalent Moderna jab available