Australia is now over four months into its COVID-19 vaccine rollout, and it’s still not going well.

At the six-week mark, I wrote about four ways the vaccine rollout had been bungled: the wrong pace, phasing, model, and messaging.

Nearly three months on, sadly none have been fixed, and new symptoms of these blunders are emerging.

With higher rates of vaccination, Australia’s current COVID-19 outbreaks may have been more easily managed. Sydney, Perth, Darwin and now Brisbane are all in lockdown, and Victoria just exited one.