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COVID surge update, booster news, new vaccine and more
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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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