Australia has officially hit 90 per cent first-dose milestone: PM

Alternative title: Former marketer and known liar highlights other's success despite his own constant attempts to sabotage

This is 90% of eligible people, not all people.

Note the small print "Of estimated population aged 16 and over"

By this measure we got to about this in Canada a while ago. But the population under 12 remains important for transmission. Before the Ontario gov't stopped publishing stats with a breakdown by age/vax status, the 11 and under grouping was averaging about 7/100k new cases a day, higher than the population-wide average at the time (though a tiny bit lower than the unvaccinated adult population). If you include the under 12s, Ontario is at 77% fully vaccinated; if you don't, it's 88.59%.

Politicians like to throw around the "% of eligible" number because it sounds higher. But there's still a long way to go.

This isn't a massive surprise: Australia has 90-95% uptake rates for every other vaccine, and it was never obvious why COVID would be different. (Apart from the Prime Minister getting involved in drug purchasing. That's usually left to professionals, who don't stuff it up.)

https://www.health.gov.au/health-topics/immunisation/childho...

What's a normal vaccination rate for the US or UK?