Vaccination Policies and Grandparent Concerns

To your question, Senator.

All right. Yeah. Okay, now, final question on this subject.

Um, if it doesn't stop infection or transmission, or have an effect

on herd immunity, the f- question that's of interest to me

is why are we

forcing grandparents to be vaccinated before they can see their grandchildren

if it

is, as we have acknowledged, not a very, not one of the best, or what the words

were, vaccines. Why, why are we forcing grandparents to do that?

So I would say when there's no forcing of grandparents to

have vaccines. Um, it is,

it is in the Australian Immunization Handbook, uh, that

people who

live with or care for, or have contact with infants who

are too young to be

vaccinated can consider to being vaccinated.

Um, but really the main drive and the thing that makes the

most difference is providing direct protection, which is through maternal

vaccination so that the, the young babies have antibodies in the

first few months

of life, and then the childhood vaccination,

which begins

at six weeks. And that is what protects babies from

hospitalization

and death from pertussis.

Thank you.

Okay.

Senator Antic. Senator Ruston.

Thank you. I just had-