New vaccine trials, prospects for COVID & future variants

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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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