Norman Swan

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What's That Rash? · Suddenly, the Brisbane outbreak looks a lot more worrying · 29 Mar 2021 podcast

So how does it feel?

Yes, and some people are saying, well, should there be a lockdown or should they have done it earlier?

And the public opinion swings around a lot on this.

And let's just take the arguments for and against.

So let's just take yesterday's discussion just to justify ourselves and our existence.

There's a good contact tracing system.

They seem to be on top of it, although there was this long gap between the medical registrar getting it at Princess Alexandra and these new cases emerging.

So that's a lot of potential there for this situation.

to spread, yet they did seem to be getting onto it.

There didn't seem to be many cases.

And then what happened yesterday, and it's unclear what will have happened by the time you're listening to this podcast, Coronacast, war has emerged.

But it was just looking a little bit wild yesterday, where you've got people who moved into New South Wales, who'd gone up to Gladstone, not being quite sure, not having tied down what has happened in terms of contacts.

close contacts moving forward.

And therefore the logical thing to do was, in fact, just to lock down for two or three days till the contact tracers catch up, hard though that is.

Yes.

Can you just put that question on pause for a moment?

Because I think there's a question a little bit before that, which is what we've mentioned from time to time, is whether or not healthcare workers in Queensland have stopped using the national guidelines and started to use the guidelines that might more apply in Victoria, which is that you wear N95 masks when you look after people physically.

with COVID-19 and it's still not you know nobody said what that medical registrar was wearing but what was said by the health minister in Queensland was they were following national guidelines so they were following national guidelines the assumption is that she wasn't because the national guidelines say that you don't wear an N95 mask when looking after somebody with COVID-19

So it does expose healthcare workers and it is a weak link in the chain.

So one hopes that in Queensland Health they've moved towards fit testing of N95s.

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