Q&A host Virginia Trioli cut off Labor frontbencher Bill Shorten after he suggested there was a 'cloud' over the AstraZeneca vaccine.
The former Opposition Leader was trying to explain a government advisory group's changing positions on the jab during a segment about how best to advertise the benefits of coronavirus vaccines.
'There's the cloud over the AZ, so that's been a problem and it has undermined confidence,' he said.
Trioli abruptly cut him off and said, 'There's not a cloud over AZ.'
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Q&A host Virginia Trioli cut off Labor frontbencher Bill Shorten after he suggested there was a 'cloud' over the AstraZeneca vaccine. The former Opposition Leader was trying to explain a government advisory group's changing positions on the jab
Mr Shorten, who was visibly annoyed with his arms crossed, abruptly replied: 'Hang on, let me finish.'
Trioli suggested she didn't want anything said on the ABC show that would further jeopardise Australia's slow vaccine rollout as the more contagious Delta strain of Covid keeps 14million in lockdown in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.
'I don't want to put anything out there that's incorrect or might stir up vaccine hesitancy,' she said.
Mr Shorten then had to defend himself by pointing out the Australian Technical Advisory Group's changing positions on AstraZeneca.
'No, I wasn't doing that,' he said.
'But what I was saying was the government changed the instructions, ATAGI changed instructions.
'They said you have to get AZ if you're 50 plus, then they changed it to 60 plus.
'That confused people.'
Bill Shorten, who was visibly annoyed with his arms crossed, abruptly replied: 'Hang on, let me finish'
In June, ATAGI recommended Pfizer over AstraZeneca for those under 60.
In April, it had recommended Pfizer instead of AstraZeneca for those under 50 after a 48-year-old NSW Central Coast died.
Now the Therapeutic Goods Administration has linked six deaths to AstraZeneca as a result of incredibly rare
