Going Viral

• How we need a national CDC to prevent the fragmented response we had to the COVID pandemic from happening again
• How healthy young people will derive little benefit from a fourth or fifth dose of vaccine, and how we should keep them for the vulnerable population
• China's response to the COVID surge being of global interest and concern
  
  

Host: David Lim | Total Time: 44 mins

Guest: Dr Gary Grohmann, Environmental Consultant and Scientific Adviser

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Episode 213

• The pros and cons of the 5th jab for health workers

• Whether we have reached the end of the road with mRNA-based vaccines

• Cutting through the subvariant hype

• New vaccines on the horizon

• The 2023 forecast – does ATAGI need a rethink?

   

Host: David Lim | Total Time: 38 mins

Guest: Dr Gary Grohmann, Virologist

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Episode 212

• The 4th wave
• Booster advice
• Christmas forecasting - will the current wave be over soon?
• The scale and impact of the anticipated long COVID crisis

Host: David Lim | Total Time: 31 mins

Guest: Prof Michael Toole AM, Infectious Disease Expert

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Episode 211

• Entering a new wave driven by a soup of Omicron sub variants, where more than 5 million Australians eligible for boosters have not received them
• How we must encourage patients to get their boosters, with the bivalent vaccines being more effective
• Cases of long COVID in Australia ranging between 300K and 1 million, and increasing re-infections escalating the risks
• How our health care system had not been designed to cope with long COVID
• Continued mask wearing still being very important, and how we must teach our patients about the importance of ventilation, filtration, and air quality
• Why the five-day isolation period should be re-introduced

Host: David Lim | Total Time: 30 mins

Guest: Prof Michael Toole AM, Infectious Disease Expert

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Episode 210

• The new COVID wave comprising of BQ1, XBB and other variants, and what our frontline response should look like

• Whether a fifth booster is worth having

• Children’s vaccination developments and an update on the antivirals

Host: David Lim | Total Time: 42 mins

Guest: A/Prof Paul Griffin, Infectious Diseases Physician and Clinical Microbiologist

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Episode 209

• How resources are being diverted to COVID-19, and how they have been affecting Tuberculosis resources

• Knowing when to suspect and diagnose active Tuberculosis and how to manage the patient

• What is latent Tuberculosis and what should you do about it

Host: David Lim | Total Time: 33 mins

Guest: A/Prof James Trauer, Respiratory, General and Public Health Physician

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Episode 208

• The bivalent vaccines
• The new variant alert for Ba.2.75 and Ba.4.6
• Herd immunity predictions and implications

Host: David Lim | Total Time: 37 mins

Guest: Prof Kristine Macartney, Infectious Disease Specialist

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Episode 207

• Despite a panoramic study suggesting a lower effect, Lagevrio has a useful impact on hospitalisations, deaths and shorter recovery time

• COVID trials becoming more difficult to run because so many people have either been vaccinated and / or exposed

• How the Pfizer vaccination’s lack of impact on transmission is not a cause for concern and was clearly communicated since its release. The main impact is the reduction of severity, hospitalisations and death, and the data for this hasn’t changed

• How a nasal vaccination might be coming

Host: David Lim | Total Time: 21 mins

Guest: A/Prof Paul Griffin, Infectious Diseases Physician and Clinical Microbiologist

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Episode 206

• The elimination of isolation periods and mask mandates

• An update on the vaccination landscape, including recently approved jabs, the bivalent vaccine, and vaccination for children

• A new nasal swab test which is about to become available. It's not a RAT and it might be more accurate

• How some prominent world leaders have tried to convince us that the pandemic is over and that we just have to get used to the "new normal", but are these ideas having the right impact on public health outcomes?

Host: David Lim | Total Time: 33 mins

Guest: Prof Nancy Baxter, Clinical Epidemiologist

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Episode 205 

• Navigating interactions...it’s easier than it first looks
• How antivirals are an important part of the management strategy to reduce the chances of severe illness and hospital admissions

Host: David Lim | Total Time: 29 mins

Guest: Dr Alexander Padiglione, Infectious Diseases Physician

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