Articles / The Australian COVID experience

This week’s expert:
Prof Tony Blakely, Epidemiologist and Public Health Medicine Specialist, University of Melbourne
Drawn from Dr David Lim’s interview with Professor Tony Blakely on the Healthed Podcast ‘Going Viral’.
What we’ve learned so far:
• Hard lockdowns need to be implemented early in an outbreak if they are going to work. Victoria did not enforce the hard lockdown early enough in the most recent outbreak allowing community spread

Why is LDL control important?

Malnutrition and frailty in older adults - The importance of screening and early intervention

Heart failure and obesity - Which do we manage first?

The social media ban - Practical preparation for children and family

Very overestimated
Moderately/slightly overestimated
Quite accurate
Moderately/slightly underestimated
Very underestimated
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