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Katie Woolf spoke with Sally Lawrence on B Part of It NT Free Meningococcal B Vaccine for Young Territorians. · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to mix one oh four point nine's three sixty. Now,
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  Speaker 1: my next guest this morning has been such an amazing advocate.
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  Speaker 1: I think you'd have to say in terms of Manager
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  Speaker 1: Cocklebe and making sure that we get our kids vaccinated
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  Speaker 1: if we're in a situation where we're able to, and
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  Speaker 1: really pushing for the government to try to ensure that
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  Speaker 1: all children are vaccinated against this terrible illness. Now, in
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, Sally lost her beautiful daughter Skyler two Menainger
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  Speaker 1: Cocklebe and since then she's created Sherichino with Skyler and
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  Speaker 1: done some amazing advocacy work in this space. And she
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  Speaker 1: joins me in the studio right now. Good morning, Sally,
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  Speaker 1: Mony Katie. Lovely to have you in the studio. Now.
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  Speaker 1: I know that this announcement was made by the Northern
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  Speaker 1: Territory government last week. Thousands of young Territorians are going
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  Speaker 1: to be vaccinated against Menager cockleb for free. It's part
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  Speaker 1: of a study which is being undertaken in the territory
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  Speaker 1: for the first time. It's a step in the right direction,
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  Speaker 1: isn't Ash. Definitely you must be feeling I mean, like
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  Speaker 1: I said in the opener, You've done so much work
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  Speaker 1: since the loss of your beautiful little girl to really
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  Speaker 1: advocate for territorians and advocate for this vaccine. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I guess this is just a trial, but does it
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  Speaker 1: sort of show you that hopefully there's going to be
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  Speaker 1: more habit.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, hopefully, Caddie, Like obviously, this is a great big
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  Speaker 2: step in the right direction for minintacockle bee and hopefully
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  Speaker 2: with this trial with the vaccine, hopefully going to be
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  Speaker 2: able to prevent to diseases as well, like minintacockle bee
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  Speaker 2: and gonorrhea. If they can get the right positive result
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  Speaker 2: at the end, potentially it can be positive locally and globally.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, which would be just phenomenal. I think what we
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  Speaker 1: all want to do is make sure that you know
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  Speaker 1: that our kids are safe. If we can help to
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  Speaker 1: prevent any kind of illness, that's what we want to
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  Speaker 1: try to do here. What was your action when you
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  Speaker 1: found out about this, about this study which is going
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  Speaker 1: to be undertaken.
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  Speaker 2: It was a great relief really to see that it's
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  Speaker 2: still out there, like it's still being talked about and
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  Speaker 2: spoken about, and that this trial is coming to the territory,
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  Speaker 2: that the schools will roll it out for all the
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  Speaker 2: teenagers to be a part of and hopefully the end
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  Speaker 2: goal will be positive to be able to see it
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  Speaker 2: rolled out into the national humanization program.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so from your understanding, how are they going to
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  Speaker 1: do the study?
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  Speaker 2: So I think they will in I think they've got
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  Speaker 2: a school's program that they will roll out. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: then they will do the first visit. They will swab
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  Speaker 2: the kids first, and then they'll do the Beck zero
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  Speaker 2: maninticoc will be vaccine with the one dose, and then
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  Speaker 2: they'll come back in two months and do the second vaccine,
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  Speaker 2: and then twelve months later they will do a second swamp.
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  Speaker 1: Right, And so I mean, I suppose some parents listening
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  Speaker 1: will be thinking, oh, you know, I wish it was
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  Speaker 1: all kids, not just those age between fourteen and nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: But like you said, if it's sort of that step
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  Speaker 1: that maybe you know, means that it does then end
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  Speaker 1: up being rolled out everywhere all around the world, it
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  Speaker 1: would be a wonderful thing. And you've sort of got
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  Speaker 1: to start somewhere, don't you.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, most definitely obviously with that age bracket, those teenagers
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  Speaker 2: adolescents are quite high with actually carrying the bacteria. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: because I've had a few questions like why is it
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  Speaker 2: only at that age? Yeah, not and not the younger children.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and so why is that because it is more
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  Speaker 1: common in the teenagers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just to carry the actual bacteria in their throat
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  Speaker 2: that don't necessarily show signs or symptoms of the disease,
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  Speaker 2: but they just carry it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And we've spoken about this before as well, because
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  Speaker 1: I know that a lot. For me after hearing your
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  Speaker 1: family's story, I went and got my kids vaccinated. And
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  Speaker 1: I know that it's a very like it can be
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  Speaker 1: quite an expensive thing for people to do. But if
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  Speaker 1: you're in a position where you're able to do it,
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  Speaker 1: I would encourage them to do it. But it can
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  Speaker 1: be quite expensive. So if it is a situation where
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  Speaker 1: it's able to be rolled out more broadly, it's going
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  Speaker 1: to make it more accessible to everybody. Yeah, most definitely.
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  Speaker 2: Like, but hopefully being able to prevent those two diseases
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  Speaker 2: will hopefully, in the long run, reduce the cost of
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  Speaker 2: the vaccination, where hopefully the government will be able to
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  Speaker 2: look at that and assess that.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. And I know that you do so much in
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  Speaker 1: the community over the years. You most certainly have and
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  Speaker 1: I always say to you, you know, I think you're
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  Speaker 1: an amazing woman what you and your little family have
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  Speaker 1: done since the loss of your little Skylar and creating
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  Speaker 1: Shareachino with Skyler have You've probably not been able to
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  Speaker 1: do much over the last year with COVID, but will
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  Speaker 1: you get back into it your recond.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully this year we'll hopefully see to have another event
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  Speaker 2: hopefully and get out in the community.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, still continue.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously Ninjakocle will be unfortunately part of our life forever.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, we'll get it back out there in the
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  Speaker 2: community and continue to raise awareness of this disease.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's great the work that you do. And
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  Speaker 1: whenever you've got something on do, make sure that you
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  Speaker 1: let us know about it. We'll try our best to
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  Speaker 1: let our listeners know. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Great, Thanks Katie.
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  Speaker 1: Good on your Sally. Always lovely to talk to you.
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  Speaker 1: Sally Lawrence there and as I said, she is the
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  Speaker 1: creator of Share a Chino with Skyler. Go and check
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  Speaker 1: it out on your Facebook page if you're keen. And yes,
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  Speaker 1: it is good news that obviously thousands of young Territorians
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  Speaker 1: are going to now be able to be vaccinated against
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  Speaker 1: manager cockle b. It is all part of a trial. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you do want some more information on that one,
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  Speaker 1: you can actually go to all the w's dot be
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  Speaker 1: part of it NT, dot com, dot au