Norman Swan

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10,274 appearances 109 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2020 last heard 11 Aug

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What's That Rash? · What’s the point of a three-day lockdown? · 11 Jan 2021 podcast

So this is open to criticism, but the fact that there's been zero cases now on subsequent days, they obviously feel the risk is low and they could get their hands on it, should it reemerge? voice-verified

Yep. voice-verified

And the problem with the Sydney outbreak is that there are two official leaks from overseas quarantine. voice-verified

I mean I think it's in transportation, both of them. voice-verified

But in fact there've been three, because although we still don't know where the Northern Beaches outbreak came from, it would have been from an overseas leak of the virus as well. voice-verified

And we just don't know where that is. voice-verified

So it's up to three. voice-verified

And that means you're voice-verified

Dealing with three potential cluster situations, and the Barala one seems to be quite trivial contact actually in this liquor store, and it has emerged originally from overseas quarantine or transportation of people in that situation. voice-verified

So there's still virus circulating in New South Wales. voice-verified

There aren't a large number of mystery cases. voice-verified

In fact, I'm not sure there are any. voice-verified

And if you do a reality voice-verified

check on the early stages of the Victorian epidemic when they were trying to ring fence thirty six suburbs, they got to I think well over three thousand mystery cases. voice-verified

So th the Victorian system was really swamped and they really didn't know where the virus is. voice-verified

At the moment they've got their handle on it, but there's still virus circulating and it's going to grumble along probably for quite some time to come. voice-verified

One hundred percent needs to be over your nose because this COVID nineteen virus enters via your nose and your mouth. voice-verified

So if you've got covid nineteen, it's in your nose, probably before it's in your mouth and in your lungs. voice-verified

So the nose is critical and you've got to cover the nose and you've got to ask people to cover their nose. voice-verified

And the other thing is that particularly people who make their own masks, some people don't make the mask big enough voice-verified

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