New vaccine trials, prospects for COVID & future variants

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Going Viral

New vaccine trials, prospects for COVID & future variants

Expert/s: Prof Adrian Esterman

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Going Viral Episode 218

In this episode:

COVID is not over, large number of deaths each week
RAT’s should be done serially when symptomatic
Vaccines are being trialled that may stop transmission
Red tape is making effective new anti-viral’s difficult to access
If a new variant is more pathogenic then we are effectively back to square one and yet we have no strategy for this

Host: Dr David Lim, GP and Medical Educator

Total time: 36 mins

Guest: Prof Adrian Esterman, Epidemiologist & Biostatistician

Last Updated: 16 Mar, 2023

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New vaccine trials, prospects for COVID & future variants

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Last Updated: 16 Mar, 2023

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