The Pfizer/BioNTech and Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines have met the extremely high safety standards set by the Therapeutic Goods Administration - TGA. The TGA will approve all COVID-19 vaccines that will be used in Australia. The vaccines do not use the live or whole virus that causes COVID-19. Watch the Australian Government Department of Health video to find out more about the TGA’s approval process. To find out more about the South Australian COVID-19 vaccination program, visit: www.cov

2.9K views · 52 reactions | A new drug to treat COVID-19 has been expedited by the Therapeutic Goods Administration with SOTROVIMAB - developed by pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline - shown to reduce hospitalisations among COVID patients by 85 per cent. | Sky News Australia | Facebook

In February 2021 the Therapeutic Goods Administration produced a document entitled “COVID-19 vaccine safety monitoring plan” which detailed the process by which the TGA would conduct its pharmacovigilance of the COVID-19 vaccinations. https://www.tga.gov.au/sites/default/files/covid-19-vaccine-safety-monitoring-plan.pdf There has been at least one attempt to obtain documents relating to the execution of that plan by way of freedom of information, and several months ago I asked the Senate to orde

1K views · 71 reactions | Press conference with the Therapeutic Goods Administration - TGA's Professor John Skerritt. Australian Government Department of Health | Greg Hunt | Facebook