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Speaker 1: Jomb mission with Jones and Amanda in light of the

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Speaker 1: ever changing and increasingly difficult climate, were joined by our

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Speaker 1: Minister for Health, our federal Minister Greg Hunt.

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Speaker 2: Hello Greg, and good morning hello Greg.

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Speaker 3: We were just.

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Speaker 2: Talking about the new ad that New South Wales is seeing,

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Speaker 2: a very confronting add a young woman on a ventilator.

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Speaker 2: What's the messaging here, what's the call to arms as

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Speaker 2: it were, Because yes, we need young people to get vaccinated,

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Speaker 2: and I know we're getting doses of fires are moved forward,

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Speaker 2: but what's the likelihood of younger people getting vaccinated when

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Speaker 2: they want to?

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Speaker 3: So the message is very very clear, and that is

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Speaker 3: that COVID is a potentially fatal disease for anybody. Obviously

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Speaker 3: the older you are, the more likely, but we do

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Speaker 3: know that it can affect anybody and that means stay

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Speaker 3: at home. It means please be tested if you have symptoms,

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Speaker 3: and when you are eligible, please be vaccinated. But right now,

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Speaker 3: that stay at home message that you can catch it,

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Speaker 3: you can inadvertently pass it on to somebody else is

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Speaker 3: immensely important and they are challenging ads. They were designed

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Speaker 3: to be challenging and we reserved them for a time

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Speaker 3: when there was a potential issues such as this, and

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Speaker 3: the Chief Medical Officer has supported it. At the same time,

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Speaker 3: we're encouraging everybody through the Arm Yourself campaign to be vaccinated,

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Speaker 3: so there is strong support that's out there.

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Speaker 4: Is there enough vaccine? Those these ads confronting as they are,

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Speaker 4: So someone wants to go and get vaccinated who's been

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Speaker 4: hesitant before, will they be able to get a vaccine?

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Speaker 3: Well, we've been putting out a million vaccines in under

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Speaker 3: ten days over the course of the last month. So

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Speaker 3: what we saw was very significant vaccination throughout June. We're

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Speaker 3: seeing it again in July. During the course of week days,

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Speaker 3: between one hundred and forty and one hundred and sixty

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Speaker 3: thousand vaccinations most days, one hundred and sixty five thousand

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Speaker 3: on the highest day last week, and so there are

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Speaker 3: very significant volumes. Obviously, the fires is increasing. We really

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Speaker 3: want to encourage everybody over sixty to come forward to

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Speaker 3: be vaccinated, and everybody who's due for their second dose

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Speaker 3: of astrasenica please come forward. It's immensely important in your

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Speaker 3: protection and we're seeing large numbers of people coming forward

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Speaker 3: to be vaccinated. But we want to continue to encourage

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Speaker 3: everybody to do that because I got my astrosenica.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we know all the stay at home stuff, Greg,

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Speaker 4: But so I got the astrosenica thing shot eight weeks ago,

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Speaker 4: so I can ring my doctor now and say can

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Speaker 4: I come and get mych.

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Speaker 2: Don't you have less coverage that way less protection?

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Speaker 3: Well, the advice from the Chief Medical Officer and the

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Speaker 3: Australia Technical Advisory Group on immanization is you have excellent

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Speaker 3: coverage in the period from eight to twelve weeks. Twelve

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Speaker 3: was the recommended but in the outbreak we are encouraging

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Speaker 3: people to come forward at an earlier time and so

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Speaker 3: please do call your doctor. There's very, very large volumes

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Speaker 3: of astroseneka that are available. And that's the recognition that

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Speaker 3: the second dose significantly adds to the coverage you already

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Speaker 3: have from your first dose.

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Speaker 4: And is it true that the second dose you've got

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Speaker 4: less chance of like I know, the chance of getting

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Speaker 4: a blood clot minimum at best, but does that lessen

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Speaker 4: the chance on the second time round, just for those

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Speaker 4: that have astrosenicat floating through their system at.

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Speaker 3: The moment, yes, it's significantly reduced. All our medical advice

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Speaker 3: is that once you've had a first dose, if you

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Speaker 3: haven't had a reaction, and again that's a very very

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Speaker 3: rare condition, and the chance sol it happening on a

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Speaker 3: second dose that reduces, again very very significantly to an

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Speaker 3: even rarer circumstance.

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Speaker 2: Without With our younger population, for example, my twenty year

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Speaker 2: old son was thinking of well should I get AstraZeneca

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Speaker 2: because it'll be months before he's on the list for phisor,

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Speaker 2: and then we hear from Queensland their Health minister saying

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Speaker 2: don't do it. Such mixed messaging, what should younger people do?

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Speaker 3: So the advice is very clear, and that is that

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Speaker 3: astrosenkery is preferred for the over sixties, pisor is preferred

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Speaker 3: for the under sixties. However, the Immunization Group advice is

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Speaker 3: that somebody who's under sixty may nevertheless seek to exercise

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Speaker 3: what's called informed consent and to seek that vaccine, and

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Speaker 3: so that's the matter for them. But if you are

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Speaker 3: doing that, we'd strongly recommend that you speak your GP first.

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Speaker 2: We're facing a long lockdown, that's what people are saying.

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Speaker 2: How financially are people going to cope? What kind of

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Speaker 2: assistance is for them?

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Speaker 3: So there's the COVID nineteen disaster payment, and this disaster

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Speaker 3: payment is available to anybody who has lost less than

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Speaker 3: twenty per hour twenty hours of work per week. That's

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Speaker 3: three hundred and twenty five dollars per week payment or

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Speaker 3: five hundred dollars for people who've lost more than twenty

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Speaker 3: hours per week. And if you go to the service's

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Speaker 3: Australia website, that's available now if you're in the affected areas,

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Speaker 3: and it's the same rate that job seeker was when

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Speaker 3: it finished. So those COVID nineteen disaster payments, we do

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Speaker 3: want to encourage people to come forward. If you've lost

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Speaker 3: lost less than twenty hours, you're eligible for the same

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Speaker 3: rate as the final job job keeper payment. Sorry, and

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Speaker 3: if you've lost more than twenty hours, eligible for the

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Speaker 3: same five hundred dollars per week which was the final

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Speaker 3: job keeper payment. So these are significant contributions. We recognize

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Speaker 3: it's hard. The other thing, of course is mental health

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Speaker 3: support and Beyond Blue has the coronavirus both telephone line

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Speaker 3: and the coronavirus beyond blue dot org dot au website

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Speaker 3: where you can have a chat online or you can

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Speaker 3: seek support.

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Speaker 4: Okay, well, thank you for joining us. Greg, I wish

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Speaker 4: it came to us about the slogan for the COVID

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Speaker 4: thinks Amanda just came up with a beauty before COVID

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Speaker 4: kick it in the deck.

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Speaker 2: You can use it for free.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the copyright, Amanda, I'm giving it too much, but

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Speaker 4: you know it's a work in progress. Feel free, perhaps

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Speaker 4: pass unders well.

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much, but anyway, take care everybody.

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Speaker 4: We've done thank you, ow mister my health, Greg Hunt

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Speaker 3: There, Jonesy and Amanda's