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But it's normally $300.
It's normally $300, very expensive.
With the age groups that are funded, I think it's just worth reminding people that actually if you go to the Immunisation Handbook or ATAGI recommendations, it's still recommended, this RSV protection against this virus, which can be really quite problematic for infants and also as you get older.
It's recommended for people aged over 70 and those people who are higher risk of complications, aged 50 to 59.
Those groups it's not funded for.
So you're still looking at potentially $300.
But it's good that for some groups now it is funded because it can be really nasty illness for older people.
I did request that we cover this.
This is a study out of Japan that's used data from public long-term insurance system.
And what they've done is they've assessed people's cooking frequency at baseline.
So they've said, how often do you cook at home?
They've then followed these people for six years.
They've matched them.
So men and women have been matched.
So people who didn't cook much, they've been matched with people who did cook a lot at home.
They've looked and they've been six years.
And the dementia rates are lower.
So basically cooking at least once a week was associated with a 30% reduction in dementia risk.
And if you're not a good cook, Norman, and I don't know if that's you or not, I don't know your cooking abilities, but you had an even greater benefit from cooking.