News: The Victorian health department has refused to release the vaccination status on the 25 coronavirus fatalities.

The spike in new deaths were reported on Thursday, which was the highest number of daily fatalities of the state’s current Delta outbreak.

When asked whether they were vaccinated, deputy chief health officer Ben Cowie said the data was available but “we’re not going to be reporting on that”.

Wondered when that would happen. No reporting on Vax adverse reactions now no reporting on vaxxed status of covid deaths.

We can guess why. It was already apparent that the media was self-censoring by being sure to report if an unvaxxed died but not mentioning anything if they were. Now the Andrews govt has regimented that.

If it's 50% dying who are vaxxed (which i read somewhere before) then i don't see that as any great anti-vax argument. A high proportion of elderly are vaxxed - they are still more prone to dying - it's not surprising that would be reflected in the stats.

But to ban the reporting outright? How will we know if that figure creeps up to 80% or higher? That would be a real concern.