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Katie Woolf spoke with Maningrida Community Nurse Malala Health Clinic Jessica Gatti · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Three sixty with Katie Wolf Thanks to Joyce Main Darwin
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  Speaker 1: Homes owned Stuart Highway Beerrimo.
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  Speaker 2: We are going to catch up with the manager of
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  Speaker 2: Primary health services at Malala Health Service in man and Greta.
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  Speaker 2: We know that they are well and truly rolling out
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  Speaker 2: that vaccine over the last couple of days, and I
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  Speaker 2: will double check this, but my understanding is that they
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  Speaker 2: actually broke a record yesterday in terms of the number
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  Speaker 2: of people that were vaccinated in the territory across one day. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I will be very open and honest here as I
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  Speaker 2: always am on this show and say that my mother
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  Speaker 2: works for Malala out there in Maningrida, So I know
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  Speaker 2: this obviously because my mum works with Jessica. But Jessica Gatty,
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  Speaker 2: who is indeed the maningreeda community nurse. Sorry, she's the
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  Speaker 2: manager of the primary health services at Malala Health Center.
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  Speaker 3: Jessica Gaddy, Good morning to you, Jessica.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: How are you guys going out there in Maningrida today
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  Speaker 2: with the vaccine rollout?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? Really good, happily very busy again today, which is amazing.
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  Speaker 3: It really is.
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  Speaker 2: Jessica, tell us what day did the vaccine rollout start
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  Speaker 2: and talk us through those numbers each day.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly so obviously with the lockdown in dah when we
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  Speaker 1: had to put on cause what was meant to roll
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  Speaker 1: out Monday through Thursday. Fortunately we managed to secure the
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  Speaker 1: team for Saturday through till Tuesday. We came through in
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday and we started our rollout Saturday morning and
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  Speaker 1: continued Sunday and then again today.
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  Speaker 2: And so on on each day. How many people have
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  Speaker 2: have been vaccinated?
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  Speaker 1: Well, there was surprisingly really high numbers. So on Saturday
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  Speaker 1: we had a bit of a blow start, just being
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  Speaker 1: that it was the weekend and we weren't through. We
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  Speaker 1: were our plans from the week before loving to translate
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  Speaker 1: into theeking. We managed to get two hundred and ninety
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  Speaker 1: eight I think it was on the stat today, and
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  Speaker 1: then I thought, right, we had a target to beat.
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  Speaker 1: I think the highest vaccination one day at a clinic
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  Speaker 1: at that point was three hundred and ninety or four
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  Speaker 1: hundred and ninety two, I think it was. So by
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  Speaker 1: close of business yesterday we managed for five hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty three vaccinations.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's so great.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys must be pumped that you've you know,
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  Speaker 2: that you've managed to vaccinate so many, so many locals
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  Speaker 2: out in Maningreda are over that over that two day period.
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  Speaker 2: But I know it's been a lot of hard work
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  Speaker 2: in the lead up as well, hasn't it, Jessica.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, And I don't think any of this success would
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  Speaker 1: happen without all of you know, the pre work and
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  Speaker 1: the days themselves. It's just been so heartening to see
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  Speaker 1: the community spirit going in. You know, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the other organizations in Maningreda donated time and resources and
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  Speaker 1: you know, did to very long nine hour days over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend manning barbecues and driving buses around and you know,
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  Speaker 1: talking to people and bringing people in. So plus all
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  Speaker 1: of the groundwork beforehand of people just having conversations throughout
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  Speaker 1: the community and addressing concerns as they came up, and
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  Speaker 1: you know the importance of having that mass coverage. So
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  Speaker 1: it's been a real testament to man and greet as
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  Speaker 1: a community spirit.
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  Speaker 2: I think, how many people are you still hoping to
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  Speaker 2: get vaccinated? Sort of over the next couple of days,
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  Speaker 2: because is it the case that you want really the
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  Speaker 2: whole community or all of the adults in the community vaccinated.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, I mean, you always set the bar as high
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  Speaker 1: as you can. I think when I had a look
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  Speaker 1: at the eligible population yesterday, we were sitting over the
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  Speaker 1: two days with around about forty five percent of the
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  Speaker 1: eligible population vaccinated in those two days, which is just phenomenal.
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  Speaker 1: And string into that that it's school holidays, that there
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  Speaker 1: was a bit of a stop start, that its drive season,
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  Speaker 1: and there's a lot of movement in and out of
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  Speaker 1: community with neighboring outstations and communities. I think numbers are
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  Speaker 1: looking really good, hopefully, you know, I mean ideally you
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  Speaker 1: would have ninety or above. I think realistically, if we
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  Speaker 1: could get above seventy percent of the eligible population vaccinated
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  Speaker 1: in the first round, then we're doing really really well.
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  Speaker 2: Jessica, why do you reckon it is that man and
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  Speaker 2: Greta has had such a you know, such a high
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  Speaker 2: rate of locals wanting to get vaccinated comparatively to some
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  Speaker 2: of the other communities. Do you reckon it's because the
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  Speaker 2: leaders in the community have been really positive about getting
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  Speaker 2: the vaccine. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, A big thing called you know Malala in the
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  Speaker 1: community was you know, those communications between the different leaders
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  Speaker 1: in the community and making sure that everyone was really
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  Speaker 1: aware of what the plan was going to be, you know,
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  Speaker 1: COVID of a virus, the fives of vaccine and what
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  Speaker 1: to expect, and you know, drawing on the support from
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  Speaker 1: top end health as a delivery mode as well. We
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  Speaker 1: put a lot of effort into a campaign advertising you
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  Speaker 1: know that the role. You know there was going to
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  Speaker 1: be a vaccination hub. Well, I just addressing people's individual
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  Speaker 1: concerns in the community, meeting with the community leaders and
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  Speaker 1: the heads of agency over and over again for the
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  Speaker 1: months leading up to the rollout. I think that I'd
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  Speaker 1: have to say that would definitely have said into the
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  Speaker 1: success of the days themselves.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, has there been much in the way of that
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  Speaker 2: vaccine hesitancy out in Man and Greater?
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  Speaker 1: I think, like any population, it's more people you always hear.
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  Speaker 1: I guess you call it the negative stories or the hesitancy,
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  Speaker 1: because people that are already happy and convinced aren't likely
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  Speaker 1: to come up and tell you that story. So we
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  Speaker 1: really went from the angle of making sure that we
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  Speaker 1: were available in the clinic but also out and about
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  Speaker 1: in the community, using different methods like setting up stores
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  Speaker 1: at the shops, and we had a big screen that
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  Speaker 1: was driving around from Camp to camp with little videos
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  Speaker 1: sort of addressing you know, what to expect when getting
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  Speaker 1: the vaccine. But I don't think I've felt that there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot more vaccine hesitancy here. I think that people
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  Speaker 1: were understandably a bit hesitant after astrosenica age groups kept
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  Speaker 1: getting changed. So FISA has definitely been on our side
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  Speaker 1: because we can very emphatically say to people that it's
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  Speaker 1: a different vaccine as the one that's been getting some
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  Speaker 1: of the less favorable.
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  Speaker 2: Press, and so Jessica, just to just to you know,
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  Speaker 2: to clarify. So yesterday, five hundred and fifty three vaccines
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  Speaker 2: in one clinic in one day.
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  Speaker 3: So that was a record, wasn't it.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely we knew we were aiming for four hundred and
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  Speaker 1: not so how that was going to roll out. But
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, the lady everyone down there just
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  Speaker 1: worked so hard, wirelessly. We've got five vaccinators and the
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  Speaker 1: you know, all the internet problems and everything that goes
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  Speaker 1: with it. So by the end of the day everyone
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  Speaker 1: was writing a high that's a phenomenal number to achieve
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  Speaker 1: in one day. O.
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  Speaker 3: Good on you guys, Jessica.
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  Speaker 2: I know that you obviously work with my mum Leslie
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  Speaker 2: and you guys, it's such a tight knit team out
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  Speaker 2: there at Malala and and you've all been working incredibly
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  Speaker 2: hard to make this happen. So good on you all,
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  Speaker 2: and well done to the whole community of Man and
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  Speaker 2: Greta on getting out there and getting vaccinated.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you very much. Hopefully we can keep it
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  Speaker 1: up the next couple of days.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, hopefully you get you know, I get to the
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  Speaker 2: volume that you're that you're hoping for.
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  Speaker 3: Jessica, thank you for your time.
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  Speaker 1: Today, not a problem, Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks.
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  Speaker 2: That is Jessica Gatty there and she is the Primary
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  Speaker 2: Health services of the manager of Primary Health Services at
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  Speaker 2: Malala Health Center. And yes, so five hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 2: three vaccinations in one clinic in one day. That was
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  Speaker 2: a record for them out there in Madagrita. And we've
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  Speaker 2: you know, I guess we've spoken a latch over the
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  Speaker 2: last couple of months about some of that vaccine hesitancy
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  Speaker 2: in some of the communities. It's something that hopefully we're
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  Speaker 2: going to see less of. And I think that after
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  Speaker 2: that lockdown last week, it's probably prompted people, whether you're
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  Speaker 2: in a community or whether you're here in Darwin. If
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  Speaker 2: you know, if you're maybe borderline about whether you're going
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  Speaker 2: to get the vaccine or not, I know it's probably
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  Speaker 2: meant that some of you have decided to go and
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  Speaker 2: get it. I understand that there is still that hesitancy
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  Speaker 2: from others, and I get that as well.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I get it