No-one said this was going to be easy. But the flammable politics surrounding Australia’s attempts to vaccinate its population against COVID-19 are certainly not helping.

Below are the results of Australian Doctor’s survey of 422 GPs involved in administering the AstraZeneca vaccine.

It’s notable that the majority were happy to offer the vaccine not just to the under-60s but also the under-40s provided they requested and gave informed consent.

But it’s important to stress the results we have published are based on responses given before ATAGI co-chair, Associate Professor Christopher Blyth, fronted the media this morning and said there were some situations where the vaccine would be warranted for the under-40s but that they were “quite small” in number.