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Can Australia actually reach its vaccination goal?

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Are We Going to Reach the 80 % Vaccination Target?

Is it unrealistic to expect that we will achieve the 80 per cent vaccination target? I think there are positive signs that we will reach it. But i also think there's still two challenges that that headline figure ignores. The first is that we should be trying to get every community to hit 80 %, not just a national or a state average. And the second challenge is that, even with an 80 percent rate of vaccination, we're still going cases go up pretty significantly when we ease restrictions.

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