Norman Swan

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What's That Rash? · Vaccines arrive in Australia. Now the challenge begins · 15 Feb 2021 podcast

That's that first phase. matched

And we haven't heard too much of exactly who's going to do what where in terms of administering vaccines yet. matched

I know that a lot of general practices have volunteered and we do have a good network of general practices, so it should be okay. matched

But I am getting anecdotal feedback from various parts of Australia saying they're really, from people in the business if you like, who are saying they're really not sure what the plans are. matched

So I think it's still a work in progress. matched

But the first phase should go okay, one would hope. matched

And then there's a process where the Commonwealth is taking responsibility for aged care and getting enough doses out into aged care, which are our most vulnerable communities, should the vaccine escape into the general community. matched

Yes, I'm not sure how that is indeed going to work. matched

But I assume that there are ways through Medicare numbers and other means that the government can, you know, tax file number. matched

I don't know, but I assume there are ways of finding out who you are and what you've got and assume that also that your general practitioner can help out too. matched

But I think those are the sorts of things that are not entirely clear how people will be identified individually. matched

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Low to middle income countries do mass vaccination programs, not all the time, but they do it frequently. matched

In fact, some would say that they're better equipped than many advanced countries, richer countries to do this. matched

And when they've had a rabies outbreak, they get through extraordinary numbers very quickly. matched

And so you can get large venues with nurses, physicians. matched

factory-like processes, logistics simplified down so that it's all there, and people head for mass vaccination areas, you can actually get through very large numbers very quickly if you need to. matched

So those numbers are not impossible, but they are hard to achieve. matched

And it's going to take a ramp up. matched

So we're going to start off slow and then ramp up from there. matched

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