With the next Covid wave crashing over a health system in crisis, Emergency Department Doctor Mark Friedericksen outlines how the frontline is coping.Then Professor Michael Baker on what’s next for the pandemic and if our surging case numbers could have been avoided.Minister for Pacific Peoples Aupito William Sio joins us from the Pacific Island Forum where he walks the diplomatic tightrope between our allies and our largest trading partner. Then ACT Leader David Seymour on how he’d take the profit out of wearing a patch. Dissecting the news of the week on our panel: Stuff senior business journalist Dileepa Fonseka, political commentator Shane Te Pou and director at Franks Ogilvie law, Brigitte Morten.

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