Queensland vaccination rates lowest in nation as double hit of Brisbane Ekka and flu peak near

This is 675,000 dollars spent to advertise the state’s free flu vaccination program.

McDougall said that Queenslanders can still receive free flu vaccine from more than 2500 community vaccination providers throughout the state and called on everyone who has not been vaccinated this year to think about it.

Professor of Immunology and Infection Control Center, Professor Kirsten Spann repeated McDougall’s advice with Brisbane Ekka, a fast approaching event, which attracted more than 340,000 visitors last year.

“The best thing people can do is to vaccine flu, Spann said Spann.

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“If you look at the vaccine in Queensland between the ages of 15 and 50, only 18 percent is really, really low. This will not protect us from being infected as a community.”

Spann said Queensland’s low vaccination intake reflects a wider tendencies, especially a decrease in vaccine confidence after vaccination.

“All of us may not stop vaccinations for these respiratory viruses through Covid, they may not stop being infected, they are not completely bullet in blocking the transmission completely.

“But they reduce how sick you feel [and] If we can increase the scope of vaccine scope, we will reduce hospital acceptances. “

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For those who are worried, it stands too late or due to the upcoming season change to vaccinate, and the spann flu season is still three months, he said.

“It’s not too late for the vaccine, so Queensland Health is running this flu program until the end of September,” he said.

“Unless you control it with improved vaccination rates, we are in a upward orbit that will probably continue until the end of winter.”

For the last two years, he has run a clinic that offers free influenza vaccines in Queensland Health Ekka. The initiative will not come back this year.