Originally Posted by
MickG0105
You can't draw that conclusion because you don't know what percentage of travellers were fully vaccinated.
That 11 fully vaccinated people tested positive out of a total of 456 positive results from all sources (fully vaccinated, partially vaccinated and unvaccinated) tells you nothing about the efficacy of vaccination in preventing infection. You need to know how many were in the total population of fully vaccinated people to determine whether 11 cases is significant. I can't find that data in the full report.
That’s probably because Australia considers vaccination irrelevant in regards to COVID.
I’ve read plenty of comments from people going through hotel quarantine and they’ve told the staff they are fully vaccinated. The general response is “so?”.
It would be useful to at least collect the data on how many are vaccinated.
No need for a “pilot program” of home quarantine either. Plenty of real world data exists to show the low risk of transmission from vaccinated arrivals.
Taiwan even reports a 98% compliance rate for its quarantine system (tracking location via a mobile app).
Even if we still put arrivals in a hotel, at least raising the limits on fully vaccinated arrivals would be a good start! (Just put them in a “clean” hotel, eg fully vaccinated only)