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Speaker 1: Hello, this is doctor Justin Colson. I'm the author of

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Speaker 1: six books about raising happy families, the founder of happy

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Speaker 1: Families dot com, dot you, and I just can't get

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Speaker 1: enough of saying this. The host of the brand new

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Speaker 1: Channel nine television show Parental Guidance, which comes out really soon.

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Speaker 1: Here with Kylie. What are you laughing at? You're just

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Speaker 1: so funny. I'm so excited. I can't help it. You

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Speaker 1: deserve to be well. Thank you, Kylie. Mun do our

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Speaker 1: six kids and Kylie. Today we're having a conversation that

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Speaker 1: is I think a really really important conversation.

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Speaker 3: An important one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely. So we're talking with doctor Jessica Kaufman. Jess

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Speaker 1: is a research fellow in the Vaccine Uptake and Acceptance

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Speaker 1: Group at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. She's also an

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Speaker 1: honorary Fellow of Latrobe University and the University of Melbourne,

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Speaker 1: and she researches vaccine related communication and social science. Basically,

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Speaker 1: what's going on with vaccines, how people responding to them,

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Speaker 1: and what's the messaging around it and what does that

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Speaker 1: mean for people, it's such a big deal because on

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Speaker 1: the weekend, the long weekend in Queensland, I said to

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Speaker 1: our three kids, who are now over the age of twelve, Hey,

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Speaker 1: what do you think about going to one of the

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Speaker 1: walking centers and getting vaccinated? And I've got a range

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Speaker 1: of responses from our children, and all three of them

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Speaker 1: who were eligible said finally, okay. There were tears. It

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Speaker 1: didn't go particularly well, especially for one of them, and

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Speaker 1: of stings for a couple of days, but we got

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Speaker 1: it done. But Kylie, you and I have had enough

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Speaker 1: conversations recently with people to know that there is a

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Speaker 1: lot of hesitancy I think would be the right word.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely. And it's a conversation that is happening at

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Speaker 3: every dinner table and you know, every phone call with

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Speaker 3: are really trying to work out how this works for them.

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Speaker 1: So we've got jess on the line, doctor Jessica Kaufman,

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Speaker 1: like I said, from the Murdoch Children's Research Institute for

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Speaker 1: are hesitant, who are concerned, or who just don't know

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Speaker 1: where to go with this. Jess, thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: I was doing a little bit of research around this

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Speaker 1: Silaghi and his colleagues have published this paper looking at

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Speaker 1: how American parents feel about their kids getting vaccinated. Now,

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Speaker 1: I know we're not America, but well, I'm wondering how

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Speaker 1: similar we are. What basically found was it around about

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Speaker 1: forty six percent of American parents as saying that they

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Speaker 1: are either very likely or somewhat likely to have their

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Speaker 1: I don't know enough about it. What do we know

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Speaker 2: Actually working on a study right now as we speak

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Speaker 2: from the Royal Children's Hospital poll they do a child

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Speaker 2: Health pole regularly, so we do have some data that

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Speaker 2: the parents who vaccinate themselves and who are willing to

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Speaker 1: So in other words, Ossie's are pretty cool with getting

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Speaker 1: we're more likely to get the kids done. No, No,

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Speaker 3: Clarified that though you're not mandating it for kids, just

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Speaker 1: When we mentioned vaccinations in this podcast, we're talking about

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Speaker 1: survival rates in unvaccinated children aged zero to nineteen years

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Speaker 1: In other words, I'm terrible at maths, but it's a really, really,

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Speaker 2: Just on the survival rate along, though, you're talking about

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Speaker 2: Those really really small percentages onto a population level, you

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Speaker 3: So yes, I'm really curious about the side effects we're

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Speaker 1: It was actually the needles side. And the kids were

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Speaker 3: So what are the short term effects that our children

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Speaker 4: But again rare and generally pretty mild.

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Speaker 3: So with that side effect, Jess, children with you know,

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Speaker 2: Most cardiac conditions are not considered a contraindication.

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Speaker 4: They don't mean that you are not able to get

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Speaker 2: If you've got a cardiac specialist already, it's a good

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Speaker 2: But for most kids who have had any sort of

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Speaker 3: So in my conversations with my friends and you know,

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Speaker 3: long term effects. The COVID vaccine hasn't been around long

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Speaker 1: Be yes, all the other term vaccines that kids have

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Speaker 3: It's the Happy Families Podcast, the podcast for the time

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Speaker 1: Those all those acronyms, so many letters, Jess, We wanted

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Speaker 1: to know what can you tell us about the vaccine

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Speaker 1: roll out for kids here in Australia.

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Speaker 2: So the vaccine is available for all children aged twelve

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Speaker 1: So if they've turned twelve, they're eligible and they can

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Speaker 1: go and get it. Jess what about for younger kids.

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Speaker 1: What can you tell us about that rollout?

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Speaker 1: Wow, that's amazing. Is the rollitt going well here in Australia?

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Speaker 2: But no, there's been really high uptaken and a lot

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Speaker 3: So just does it matter which brand they receive?

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Speaker 4: No, it absolutely does not matter which brand kids receive.

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Speaker 2: They are able to get the Fighter or the Maderna vaccines,

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Speaker 3: Lots of kids are really scared of needles. We have

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Speaker 1: We have had Yeah, it was pretty pretty She's been like.

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Speaker 3: That since since she was very, very young. But given

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Speaker 2: Look, a lot of kids are afraid of needles, and

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Speaker 2: that we can give them, other than being vaccinated themselves.

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Speaker 2: But I do think, you know, as more people are

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Speaker 1: Doctor Jessica Coffin from the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. This

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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen. Do you have any final comments.

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Speaker 2: I think my final comment would just be that it's

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Speaker 2: really normal to have questions and to have some concerns

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Speaker 2: think those through carefully.

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Speaker 4: Talk to your GP, talk to.

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Speaker 2: You know, other people in your lives, but you know,

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Speaker 3: Lovely to talk with you, Jess.

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Speaker 1: Thanks jess, great conversation. Really appreciate it that where is

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