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Katie spoke with Palmerston GP Super Clinic CEO Robyn Cahill about vaccine uptake · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: You are listening to Mix one O four point nine.
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  Speaker 1: It is twenty five minutes away from ten o'clock. And
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  Speaker 1: joining us live on the line is the CEO of
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  Speaker 1: the Palmerston Superclinic, Robin Karl. Good morning to you, Robin.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning Katie.
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  Speaker 1: How are you going very well? How are you guys
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  Speaker 1: going out there? Robin? Has it been a busy few
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  Speaker 1: days since the government announced the mandate for the vaccine?
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  Speaker 2: It has been a busy few days since that announcement.
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  Speaker 2: We've had quite a few people coming in who have
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  Speaker 2: indicated that they kind of really hadn't seen the urgency.
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  Speaker 2: They weren't opposed to getting the vaccine, but now that
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  Speaker 2: that mandate has come in, will they feel that they
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  Speaker 2: really need to get off their bottoms and get in
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  Speaker 2: and get vaccinated because there's a consequence if they don't
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  Speaker 2: that's quite immediate for them. So good and bad, I
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  Speaker 2: guess yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Was there a surge have you guys found in numbers
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  Speaker 1: following on from that announcement last week?
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  Speaker 2: Well, most certainly last week from within an hour of
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  Speaker 2: the announcement being made, we were inundated. We've called from
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  Speaker 2: people to come in and get their vaccines and we've
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  Speaker 2: certainly seen an increase in our forward booking since that announcement,
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  Speaker 2: interestingly enough, mainly in the afternoon. So that does kind
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  Speaker 2: of indicate that we're talking about the workforce now where
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  Speaker 2: they can't come in the mornings and so they're getting
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  Speaker 2: themselves organized and coming along in the afternoon to have
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  Speaker 2: their vaccine. But we'd still like to see more territorians
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  Speaker 2: taking that lunge and coming in and getting the JAB
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  Speaker 2: so that we can actually make sure we're protected and
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  Speaker 2: everybody is on the same page.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we were just speaking to Bevini Patel, the vaccine lead,
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  Speaker 1: and she was telling us we're talking through some of
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  Speaker 1: those calls that we've had in recent days of hesitancy,
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  Speaker 1: some totally opposed to the vaccine, but some of those
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  Speaker 1: genuine concerns that people have got. Robin, have you had
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  Speaker 1: many people come in with some of those genuine concerns
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  Speaker 1: and just wanting some advice about if this is safe
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  Speaker 1: and what steps they need to take.
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  Speaker 2: Certainly, probably at least thirty percent of the people who
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  Speaker 2: come in, even though they've made the decision to have
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  Speaker 2: the vaccine before the mandate, have wanted some reassurance around
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  Speaker 2: the vaccine, and we understand that for the general public
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  Speaker 2: it does look like things happen very quickly with the
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  Speaker 2: development of this vaccine. But I think what's really important
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  Speaker 2: for everybody to understand is the actual vaccine process that
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  Speaker 2: the Pfizer and the Madernas, so the mRNA vaccines that
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  Speaker 2: have been developed, have actually been in development till well
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  Speaker 2: over a decade. And also for the very first time
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  Speaker 2: in history, certainly in modern history, everybody working in that
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  Speaker 2: field came together as one to make something happen in
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  Speaker 2: a fashion that has was unprecedented. So proved that together
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  Speaker 2: working together our scientists, our fumcugal companies, our countries, all
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  Speaker 2: with one aim, and that was developing a vaccine against COVID,
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  Speaker 2: can do amazing work quite quickly to pull it all together.
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  Speaker 2: And then actually you had mass trials happening all at once.
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  Speaker 2: So if you think about usual processes, you'll have a
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  Speaker 2: company looking at a vaccine doing their trials on a
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  Speaker 2: very kind of methodical basis. But if you put every
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  Speaker 2: company together in the world, all doing it at the
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  Speaker 2: same time, you end up with a massive amount of
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  Speaker 2: data and a massive amount of information that tells you
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  Speaker 2: this vaccine all of these vaccines are very safe, and
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  Speaker 2: the millions of people who've had the vaccine in the
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  Speaker 2: last twelve months a proof that we have found a
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  Speaker 2: solution to what was going to be a very very
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  Speaker 2: difficult health problem for the whole world, not just for
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  Speaker 2: Australia and certainly not just for the Northern Territory.
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  Speaker 1: And Robin, I know, last time you and I spoke,
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  Speaker 1: we were talking about the fact that there had been
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  Speaker 1: quite a few people come through who are maybe visitors
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  Speaker 1: or from interstate who'd come out to get their vaccine.
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  Speaker 1: We're still seeing visitors and people coming from interstate out
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  Speaker 1: to MLE clinic to get vaccinated.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we are. We still have that group of people
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  Speaker 2: who are traveling our beloved grain nomads as they make
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  Speaker 2: their way around the country. So we're certainly seeing a
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  Speaker 2: large number of those. We certainly see people who've come
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  Speaker 2: as visitors who often now their coming for their second dose.
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  Speaker 2: So they might have had their first dose in their hometown,
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  Speaker 2: they've been in the territory, their second dose is fallen
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  Speaker 2: jew so rather than wait till they've gone back home,
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  Speaker 2: they've popped in and had that second dose so that
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  Speaker 2: they could keep their vaccination process going. So I haven't
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  Speaker 2: done the stats in the most recent times, but I
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  Speaker 2: don't think it will have changed significantly from that original
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  Speaker 2: roughly twenty percent that we were seeing whose home residence
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  Speaker 2: wasn't in the Northern Territory.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Robin Carl, the CEO of the Palmerston GP Superclinic,
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  Speaker 1: I always appreciate your time. Thank you very much for
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  Speaker 1: having a chat with us this morning.
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  Speaker 2: No werries, Katie, you have a great day.