According to the TGA, more than 60 per cent of people who get the Pfizer jab will experience fatigue, more than half will get a headache, more than 30 per cent will suffer muscle pain or chills and more than one in five will experience joint pain.
The side effects dissipate after a few days and set against them is the authority’s finding that the Pfizer vaccine prevents symptomatic COVID-19 in 95 per cent of patients.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday morning that the green light was a formal approval under the normal processes of the TGA and not an emergency measure, but warned that the coronavirus crisis was far from over.
“I have a simple message to Australia, thank you Australia,” he said. “Thank you that you have put us in a situation that is the envy of most countries in the world today. We intend to keep it that way. We intend to remain vigilant.
“Once the vaccines start, that doesn’t mean you can jump on a plane to Bali the next day, that the masks or the quarantine arrangements disappear … this will build, it will start at a small scale but it is not a silver bullet.“
