Going Viral

• The national vaccine strategy
• Subdermal injection
  
  

Host: David Lim | Total Time: 5 mins

Guest: A/Prof Nigel Crawford, Infectious Disease Specialist

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• The Omicron booster, latest ATAGI decisions including the Moderna baby dose and Novavax for teens
• The new variant vaccines, should we mix and match boosters?
• Forecasting the next wave

Host: Dr David Lim | Total time: 29 mins

Guest: A/Prof Nigel Crawford, Infectious Diseases Specialist

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• A closer look at where we are right now in Australia and the world
• Efficacy of a fourth dose of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine against Omicron specifically
• More information on the Zoonotic Henipavirus in China, Monkeypox and other emerging diseases
  
  

Host: Dr David Lim | Total time: 46 mins

Guest: A/Prof Sanjaya Senanayake, Infectious Diseases Specialist

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• COVID-19 trends of new cases, hospitalisations and deaths
• Mask mandates will help but the political leaders don’t want to do it
• Monkeypox - understanding the Australian situation and the public health response
  
  

Host: Dr David Lim | Total time: 31 mins

Guest: Prof Michael Toole AM, Infectious Disease Expert: Associate Principal Research Fellow, Burnet Institute; Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University

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• Antiviral drugs and other therapeutics
• New drugs and vaccines in the pipeline
• Are universal vaccines a pipe dream?
• Why vaccines are only part of the answer and will never control the pandemic?
• Lesson learned on how to stop the next pandemic

 

Host: Dr David Lim | Total time: 33 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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• New 3rd booster guidelines from ATAGI

• Omicron is changing and there are serious implications
• We need to ramp up preventive measures to tackle this new wave more effectively
  
  

Host: Dr David Lim | Total time: 29 mins

Guest: Prof Michael Toole AM, Infectious Disease Expert, Associate Principal Research Fellow, Burnet Institute; Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University

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• A high index of suspicion based on vaccination status, travel and exposure history will help raise a red flag
• Whilst awaiting confirmation of the throat swab culture result, reaching out early to your local infectious disease expert is highly advised
• GPs are once again at the forefront of identifying, treating and ensuring that we commence the appropriate public health interventions

Host: Dr David Lim | Total time: 22 mins

Guest: A/Prof Paul Griffin, Infectious Diseases Physician and Clinical Microbiologist; Director of Infectious Diseases, Mater Hospital; Lecturer, University of Queensland; Principal Investigator and Medical Director, Nucleus Network

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• Managing Influenza and reducing co-infection
• The safety and effectiveness of the flu vaccine when given with a covid vaccine
• Cases of Monkeypox in Australia and vaccination
• Diphtheria in Australia, should we worry about Polio yet?
  
  

Host: Dr David Lim | Total time: 19 mins

Guest: A/Prof Nicholas Wood, Staff Specialist General Paediatrician; Associate Director, National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance

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• Omicron sub-variants
• Antivirals
• Reinfection
• Long COVID epidemiology

Host: Dr David Lim | Total time: 15 mins

Guest: A/Prof Nicholas Wood, Staff Specialist General Paediatrician; Associate Director, National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance

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• COVID-19 is now endemic, constantly changing and evolving
• The health system is under rising pressure at all points, and therefore a concerted approach to prevent and minimize disease is increasingly needed
• The information on treatment options is also constantly evolving
• Working from regularly updated guidelines is now usual practice
• Current oral antivirals provide good options for many, noting the indication, contraindications, and particularly drug interaction
  
  

Host: Dr David Lim | Total time: 27 mins

Guest: Adj. Prof Brent Richards, Professor of Critical Care Research; Medical Director of Research Commercialisation, GCHHS; Founding member, National Intensive Care Clinical Trials Group

 

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