Going Viral

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Prof Michael Toole AM

The 4th wave, booster advice, Christmas forecasting - will the current wave be over soon?, the scale and impact of the anticipated long COVID crisis

Prof Michael Toole AM

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, and how we must encourage patients to get their boosters, with the bivalent vaccines being more effective

Prof Paul Griffin

The new COVID wave comprising of BQ1, XBB and other variants, and what our frontline response should look like, whether a fifth booster is worth having, children's vaccination developments and an update on the antivirals

A/Prof James Trauer

How resources are being diverted to COVID-19, and how they have been affecting Tuberculosis resources, knowing when to suspect and diagnose active Tuberculosis and how to manage the patient

Prof Kristine Macartney

The bivalent vaccines, the new variant alert for Ba.2.75 and Ba.4.6, and herd immunity predictions and implications

Prof Paul Griffin

Despite a panoramic study suggesting a lower effect, Lagevrio has a useful impact on hospitalisations, deaths and shorter recovery time. Additionally COVID trials becoming more difficult to run because so many people have either been vaccinated and / or exposed

Prof Nancy Baxter

The elimination of isolation periods and mask mandates, and an update on the vaccination landscape, including recently approved jabs, the bivalent vaccine, and vaccination for children

Dr Alexander Padiglione

Navigating interactions... it’s easier than it first looks, and how antivirals are an important part of the management strategy to reduce the chances of severe illness and hospital admissions

A/Prof Nigel Crawford

The Omicron booster, latest ATAGI decisions including the Moderna baby dose and Novavax for teens. Plus the new variant vaccines, should we mix and match boosters?

A/Prof Sanjaya Senanayake

Monkeypox, influenza, polio, tomato flu and other things that are keeping public health up at night, latest COVID developments, ATAGI announcements.

Prof Michael Toole AM

Trends of new cases, hospitalisations and deaths- mask mandates will help but the political leaders don’t want to do it.

Dr Gary Grohmann

Antiviral drugs and other therapeutics, new drugs and vaccines in the pipeline. Are universal vaccines a pipe dream? Why vaccines are only part of the answer and will never control the pandemic?