A freedom of information request has revealed that the Victorian health department wasn’t being transparent in some of its COVID-19 death reporting.
in January, almost 47 per cent of Victorians who had recently died from COVID-19 were unvaccinated, despite this group comprising a tiny proportion of the state’s population.
Vaccine uptake expert Professor Julie Leask said errors of this type risked undermining confidence in vaccination programs “and also be more fodder for activist opponents of vaccination who will seek to find anything they can to lever their broader agenda to scare people off vaccination”.
NSW was also reporting a similar proportion of deaths where a person’s vaccination status was unknown . These patients were people for whom there was no perfect match to the national Australian Immunisation Register. This could occur when people’s names were recorded differently. The January 20 public update said that of the 958 COVID-related deaths reported in the state in the previous three months, “46.9 per cent were unvaccinated”, representing 449 people.
The more recent data, obtained via FOI, also included an additional 158 deaths later reported, but Trauer said this could not explain the level of discrepancy between the two sets of figures.
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