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Going Viral: COVID Update – Variants, long COVID and safety of boosters
Going Viral: COVID Update – Variants, long COVID and safety of boosters

Going Viral: COVID Update – Variants, long COVID and safety of boosters

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Going Viral Episode 191: COVID update – Variants, long COVID and safety of boosters

 

In this episode:

 

 

– Current burden and variants
– Long COVID and vaccines
– COVID vaccine boosters – effectiveness and safety and the need for a 4th dose
– Update on safety of COVID vaccines

 

 

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Host: Dr David Lim, GP and Medical Educator

 

 

Total time: 25 mins

 

 

Guest: A/Prof Nicholas Wood, Staff Specialist General Paediatrician

 

 

 
 
 

 

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A/Prof Nicholas Wood

Staff Specialist General Paediatrician; Associate Director, National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance

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A/Prof Wood is a staff specialist general paediatrician and Associate Professor and Sub-Dean (Postgraduate Research) in the Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health at the University of Sydney. He is also the Associate Ddirector at National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance. He holds an NHMRC Career Development Fellowship. He leads the NSW Immunisation Specialist Service and coordinates the Immunisation Adverse Events Clinic at The Children's Hospital at Westmead. He is interested in maternal and neonatal immunisation, as well as research into vaccine safety and the genetics of adverse events.

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