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- Going Viral: The SA situation, should we be looking for an alternative to hotel quarantine?
In this episode:
- Is Australia’s model of quarantine of our returned travellers the safest for our community?
- Would you travel to the USA for a vacation after you receive your immunisation?
- Some positives that have arisen because of COVID-19 in Australia.
Host: Dr David Lim | Total time: 34 mins
Guests: Prof Adrian Esterman, Epidemiologist and Biostatistician; Professor of Biostatistics, UniSA Clinical & Health Sciences
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Tuesday 1 December 2020 | 7:00pm-9:00pm AEDT
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34 min - Going Viral: The Mink Mutation, the Pfizer vaccine
In this episode:
- The mink mutation is a potentially serious issue, but for now seems to be contained
- Pfizer vaccine 90% effective? Probably not
Host: Dr David Lim, GP | Total time: 30 mins
Guest: Dr Gary Grohmann, Virologist; Vaccine Manufacturing Expert; Former Director of Immunobiology and WHO ERL at the TGA, Office of Laboratories and Scientific Services
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Tuesday 17 November October 2020 | 7:00pm-9:00pm AEDT
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31 min - Going Viral: Vaccine misconceptions - Is the overseas situation as bad as it seems?
In this episode:
- Myths and misconceptions about the COVID vaccine
- Practical implications and uptake of the vaccine
- Rapid testing for Phase 3 trials
Host: Dr David Lim, GP | Total time: 25 mins
Guest: A/Prof Paul Griffin, Infectious Diseases Physician and Microbiologist; Director of Infectious Diseases, Mater Hospital; Lecturer, University of Queensland; Principal Investigator and Medical Director at Nucleus Network
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Tuesday 17 November October 2020 | 7:00pm-9:00pm AEDT
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26 min - Going Viral: Treatment Update
In this episode:
- Despite pauses in vaccine trials, progress is satisfactory
- Only dexamethasone has robust evidence as a treatment for acute COVID
- Remdesevir doesn’t work, small chance that regeneron and convalescent plasma might
Host: Dr David Lim, GP | Total time: 34 mins
Guest: A/Prof Sanjaya Senanayake, Infectious Diseases Physician; Medical School, ANU
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Tuesday 3 November October 2020 | 7:00pm-9:00pm AEDT
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34 min - Going Viral: Where to now for VIC?
In this episode:
- Now that numbers are very low, rolling average of new cases becomes less useful
- There are alternative metrics that can be used now
- Sewage testing will be an important early warning system in Melbourne
Host: Dr David Lim, GP | Total time: 23 mins
Guest: Catherine Bennett, Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Tuesday 20 October 2020 | 7:00pm-9:00pm AEDT
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24 min - Going Viral: The UK pandemic - When the pandemic and politics collide
In this episode:
- Understanding the role of the culture wars in shaping the pandemic response
- Loss of faith in experts and science needs to be more deeply understood
- What are the lessons for us here?
Host: Dr David Lim, GP | Total time: 31 mins
Guest: Dr Ben Wellings, Senior lecturer in Politics and International Relations; Director of the Monash PPE Degree at Monash University, Melbourne
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Tuesday 20 October 2020 | 7:00pm-9:00pm AEDT
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32 min - Going Viral: Virus survival on surfaces much longer than previously thought
In this episode:
- Practical implications- “keep washing your hands frequently”
- Why has fomite transmission not featured more prominently in recent outbreaks?
Host: Dr David Lim, GP | Total time: 27 mins
Guest: Dr Gary Grohmann, Virologist; Vaccine Manufacturing Expert; Former Director of Immunobiology and WHO ERL at the TGA, Office of Laboratories and Scientific Services
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Tuesday 20 October 2020 | 7:00pm-9:00pm AEDT
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28 min - Going Viral: Pandemic and Lockdown Stress - What to Look For
In this episode:
- Anxiety about catching COVID, en-masse disappointment if the vaccine doesn’t meet expectations
- Effects of prolonged psychosocial isolation
- Economic Stress is probably the main issue
- Drug & alcohol issues and domestic violence can be severe but often hidden if not specifically screened for
Host: Dr David Lim, GP | Total time: 25 mins
Guest: Prof Malcolm Hopwood, Psychiatrist; Director of the Professorial Psychiatry Unit, Albert Road Clinic, University of Melbourne
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Tuesday 20 October 2020 | 7:00pm-9:00pm AEDT
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26 min - Going Viral: USA - A Lesson in What Not To Do!
In this episode:
- What’s your assessment of how the US is handling the current COVID situation?
- What are the implications of the White House being contaminated?
- Why do you think the US leadership is negatively disposed towards science?
Host: Dr David Lim, GP | Total time: 20 mins
Guest: Dr Amesh Adalja, Senior Scholar, Johns Hopkins University Centre for Health Security, United States; Infectious Diseases and Emergency Medicine/Critical Care Physician
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Tuesday 20 October 2020 | 7:00pm-9:00pm AEDT
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21 min - Going Viral: The Great Barrington Declaration
In this episode:
- Is it ideology, science or pseudoscience?
- The editors of the NEJM finally speak up
- Testing rates in Ethiopia are higher than the rates in USA
Host: Dr David Lim, GP | Total time: 22 mins
Guest: Prof Raina McIntyre, Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW
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Tuesday 20 October 2020 | 7:00pm-9:00pm AEDT
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