Australia’s former deputy chief medical officer Nick Coatsworth said no state should delay the return to school to wait for higher vaccination rates of children aged 5 to 11. “Every government and medical expert in this country needs to follow the lead of the World Health Organisation and the United Nations Children’s Fund, which both state that schools should be the last to close and the first to open,” Coatsworth told Nine’s, Today Show. “We are not in a situation in Australia that requires a delay to school opening.” He said vaccinations were more critical for the adult cohort, so parents should not stress over getting their children vaccinated before class starts. “We have got to leave this fear behind and replace it with facts,” Coatsworth said, noting that data from the U.S. showed that mortality rates among fully vaccinated individuals was 0.003 percent. He wrote on Twitter, calling on …