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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: This season is predicted to be a shocker, with one

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Speaker 2: in three people tipped to get a cold or the flu.

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Speaker 2: It's already sixteen percent increase compared to this time last year.

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Speaker 2: The Health Minister, Ryan Park joins us right now to

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Speaker 2: talk about the newly available flu vaccine.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, minister, Good morning, Amanda, Good morning.

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Speaker 1: Don't you hello? Ryan? I know that figure sounds a

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Speaker 1: little alarming, but isn't that what we have every winter?

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Speaker 3: Well, we've seen a sixteen percent increase, and unfortunately it's

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Speaker 3: come very early on in the season and that's a concern,

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Speaker 3: particularly for vulnerable members in the community, those with already

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Speaker 3: existing conditions, and it also has a big impact on

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Speaker 3: our health and hospital system. So we're urging people today

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Speaker 3: as we launched the campaign, to make some time with

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Speaker 3: your GP or your pharmacists and go and get your vaccination.

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Speaker 2: How are people feeling about vaccinations? Are you finding even

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Speaker 2: anecdotally that people are less likely to have shot? It's

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Speaker 2: now post COVID. People are sick of all that and

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Speaker 2: have been reading all the conspiracy theories. Is it making

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Speaker 2: an impact?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is, Amanda. We're brutally honest about it. It

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Speaker 3: hasn't helped. Over the last couple of years, we are

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Speaker 3: continuing to see people be a little bit hesitant about

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Speaker 3: getting a vaccine. They shouldn't be. Vaccines are safe and

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Speaker 3: more importantly effective, and they work here in New South

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Speaker 3: Wales and in this country, and those people who have

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Speaker 3: experienced flu will tell you it's a lot more than

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Speaker 3: just a couple of stiffles and a sore throat and

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Speaker 3: a cold. Flu can be very, very dangerous, put people

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Speaker 3: into hospital, and that's why we want to make sure

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Speaker 3: that people go and get their flu vaccination and protect

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Speaker 3: themselves over the winter months.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because I get my flu vaccination. I've been getting

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Speaker 1: it since so. I remember I turned thirty two. I

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Speaker 1: was really run down and the doctor said, if you

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Speaker 1: ever had a flu shot, and I waid, noah, no,

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Speaker 1: why would I get that? And he said you should

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Speaker 1: just get it. And I got the flu shot when

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Speaker 1: I was thirty two and I've had it ever since.

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Speaker 1: So now I'm fifty six and it's always worked for me.

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Speaker 1: And then with light of COVID, so I'm getting the

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Speaker 1: blue shot. But I'm deciding because I've had I think

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Speaker 1: six or seven shots of the COVID vaccine. Am I

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Speaker 1: at a point now where I'm feeling that I don't

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Speaker 1: need to get the COVID shot anymore.

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Speaker 3: No. Look, basically, for adults who are reasonably healthy every

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Speaker 3: twelve months, you should look at getting a booster for COVID.

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Speaker 3: That's important. We know that COVID is still around. Obviously

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Speaker 3: as society we're learning to live with it and manage

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Speaker 3: it and deal with it. But COVID is still out

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Speaker 3: in amongst our community, and it's important to have that

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Speaker 3: protection and make sure you're protected. But also the more

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Speaker 3: people that are vaccinated, we get that herd immunity where

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Speaker 3: we try and also help protect vulnerable people from these illnesses.

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Speaker 1: Well, there you go. That's why we're sitting in our

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Speaker 1: singlet and now underpants today.

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Speaker 2: Minuet, ready for our shot, Ready to go, Ready to go.

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Speaker 2: I've had the flu vaccine and.

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Speaker 3: A doctor chance that don't tell doctor Chant you're ready

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Speaker 3: to go? Yes to come over personally.

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Speaker 2: I've had my COVID and my phone, so yeah, I'm

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Speaker 2: up to date with a take that stuff. Very I did,

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Speaker 2: and I got them both at the same time. The

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Speaker 2: chemist said that's fair enough to do it. Did knock

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Speaker 2: me around. I've never had a response to a COVID

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Speaker 2: vaccine before, but having both on that same day, my

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Speaker 2: arm was really sore and I just felt a bit blur.

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Speaker 2: But I thought, look, I would put up with that.

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Speaker 2: For getting it out of the way.

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Speaker 1: Our Health Minister Rhyan, thank you very much for joining us.

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Speaker 3: Minister, thanks a lot