Thread by @MackayIM

Some international Tweeps seem to think *Australia* has lost its control over COVID-19. The map below shows Australian States and Territories. The yellow bit is where all the cases you're hearing about (100-200 per day) are from.
Hopefully, they'll regain control in coming weeks

The rest of Australia continues to manage cases at the border or is getting on top of some local community spread as usual.
Vaccination is ongoing but not at the rate many of us would like to see it. There are multiple reasons underlying that, principally issues with mRNA supply.

Our earliest "sovereign" vaccine had issues as it produced an HIV diagnostic cross-reaction. Our second most backed vaccine generated safety signals which - in the absence of community COVID-19 - created a risk imbalance due to TTS.

And we didn't place our orders fast enough for the mRNA vaccines so we're, as a nation, down the queue. Now that NSW (the yellow State) has a (relatively speaking for Aus) big ongoing outbreak, the risk balance there has changed. The AZ vaccine is a safe bet in places where there

are lots of COVID-19 cases because then the risk of disease due to COVID-19 faaar outweighs the risks from the TTS. But the communication around the AZ risk has been...troubling, & recently finger-pointy & paternalistic.

Australia needs to get back to no widespread community transmission. Despite "the Delta variant" being blamed for things, it's clear we absolutely can (& have) stop community transmission due to it - as we have with the other variants

Vaccine stocks are coming in numbers that will mean we could - if we all step up - get highly vaccinated by Xmas.
But that will depend on being ready for those stocks *ahead of time* & lots of careful, authentic, clever, multilingual & widespread communication