Norman Swan
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10,274 appearances
109 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2020
last heard 11 Aug
Norman Swan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And it's been seen recently as older people isolate and don't go out into the community.
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And with these new variants, there's a tendency for younger people to be infected.
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And it's younger people who are starting to die in large numbers in places like the UK and the US, even though those numbers are tailing off, luckily.
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And don't forget to send in your questions and comments.
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They're flooding in at abc.net.au slash Coronacast and mention Coronacast on the way through and we'll pick them up and try and answer them.
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And we'll see you tomorrow.
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And I'm physician and journalist Doctor Norman Swan.
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It's Tuesday, the twelfth of January.
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Happy New Year to everybody, and because you're listening to this, you know we're back.
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Yeah, and a lot of your questions are coming in, so we thought we'd just get back early and help out.
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No, it's a good question, and we've had a few questions along those lines about what was the logic for it.
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I think it was really to give Queensland a chance to see what was happening there, the contact tracers to get organized, and actually just to put a pause on community transmission.
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And I suspect what was in their minds was that this might not have been a three-day lockdown, that it might actually have ended up being a seven to ten-day lockdown.
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Lockdown just to fit in maybe with the first incubation period.
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But luckily there haven't been any cases, so they're in good shape and able to lift it.
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Which in a sense is what happened, not in a sense, it's the same thing that happened in South Australia, just get in quickly, see what's going on, and yeah, it is a bit disruptive, no question.
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It was over a weekend, which does minimize that, which is fortunate.
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But uh they know where they're standing and they've got zero cases and they can lift off and just see what happens.
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Well, you know, that's a matter of debate.
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Certainly, you know, in the Twitter sphere there's criticism and there was an editorial not an editorial but an op ed the other day suggesting that it was all over catastrophized.
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