AstraZeneca is a governance failure. Actual governance - not screaming about erroneous horseshit by yahoos. ATAGI, with their focus on individualised health risk of immunisation (that's not a flaw BTW, it's a feature) professionally executed their role. 1/n
2/ The problem is that their official role wasn't compatible with the complexities of the total costs and benefits of Covid vaccination advice, where the costs aren't just individualised health risks, but much broader risks of human detriment......
3/ .....think collective costs that we see in restrictions like lockdowns - such as wider social and economic well-being, childhood education disruption etc - let alone broader, individualised non-health costs such as earnings reductions etc.
4/ If one were a Prime Minister remotely interested in actual governance, this would have instantly appeared as an issue of concern, where a solution was required before letting *accurate information* about individualised health risk become a substitute for total risk
5/ The solution was easy. The Feds could simply form an ATAGI Sub-Committee for COVID-19 Vaccination, where additional expertise could be brought on board to enable a comprehensive risk assessment based on the much wider costs and benefits involved.
6/ But the Feds didn't do this. They just allowed square pegs to be pushed into round holes. This is not ATAGI's fault - they executed their role according to their terms of reference. They couldn't do otherwise. The fault lies with a Gov unable to do basic governance like this.
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