Gazing into the crystal ball seems like a pretty foolish pastime right now – but what we can do is collect data.
Epidemiologist and friend of the podcast Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz talks us through what variables we can and should be tracking to make more accurate predictions about the future of this pandemic.

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As you probably all know by now, we’ve been running a live blog on our website to bring you breaking news about the pandemic. Every news outlet is doing this now, but no one else is running a blog specifically for GPs! For this episode of The Medical Republic podcast, we're joined by Bianca Nogrady, a science and medical freelancer who has been working full-time on the blog.

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The National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce was formed just four weeks ago to sift through that evidence and provide “living” guidelines for clinicians, which are being updated weekly – how on earth do they keep on top of it all?

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With some very average research gaining global traction, and the leader of the free world proposing we inject disinfectant to fight COVID-19, we need proper science to sort the sheep from the goats.The AustralaSian Covid-19 Trial (ASCOT) aims to enrol more than 2000 patients across Australian and New Zealand hospitals to test whether two much-hyped drugs – hydroxychloroquine and lopinavir/ritonavir, or a combination – can stop disease progression.While these trials can take two years from conception to recruitment, this one has taken a matter of weeks.Penny Durham spoke to principal investigator Professor Joshua Davies about the ASCOT study, the rationale behind these drugs and the speed of pandemic science.

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One of the questions on everybody’s minds right now is: what will general practice look like after the COVID-19 pandemic?
Today, I’m joined by Dr Edwin Kruys, a Queensland GP, who wrote a blog on this topic for NewsGP.

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As you probably all know by now, we’ve been running a live blog on our website to bring you breaking news about the pandemic. Every news outlet is doing this now, but no one else is running a blog specifically for GPs! For this episode of The Medical Republic podcast, we're joined by Bianca Nogrady, a science and medical freelancer who has been working full-time on the blog.

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When cases of coronavirus start to decline, the public might abandon public health advice for old habits. How do we keep the threat of COVID-19 in the public conscience?

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We've invited our live blog reporter Bianca Nogrady and TMR publisher Jeremy Knibbs on the show to bring you the latest updates on how COVID-19 is affecting general practice.

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The Medical Republic sits down with the ABC's chief COVID-19 reporter, Dr Norman Swan, to talk about the importance of government transparency and how he is handling recent criticism of his reporting.

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The transition to telehealth has been more than a little bumpy.
In this episode, Dr Nathan Pinskier, a Melbourne GP and an e-health expert, describes some of the complications that come with rolling out telehealth in the midst of a global pandemic.

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