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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.