The concerning outbreak in NSW Indigenous communities has sparked an urgency for the Queensland Government to put, as the Brisbane Times said, ‘pedal to the metal’ on the vaccination rates of their own Indigenous communities.
Professor James Ward, director of the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health at the University of Queensland says even though much of the focus is on Western NSW, focus should not be lost on QLD because it is for now relatively free of the virus.
Indigenous vaccination rates are just half of the overall rate, with only twenty four percent of eligible First Nations People having received their first dose.