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? · Why are health authorities still struggling to communicate? · 30 Nov 2020 podcast

The understanding we seem to have got yesterday was that he, in fact, was a casual contact, was told to isolate until he was tested. voice-verified

He was tested and isolated to the result. voice-verified

The result was negative. voice-verified

So he wasn't in quarantine. voice-verified

And then he was told to get another test at 11 days, which apparently was positive. voice-verified

And it was while he was positive that he was out and about. voice-verified

I'm not sure that he knew that he was positive, but he was out and about around about that period of time. voice-verified

So it's just another example where you're creating danger when you're not sure of your facts and you jump in. voice-verified

And then people like us, we jump in too. voice-verified

But we're assuming that the information is accurate. voice-verified

Not making any excuses about this. voice-verified

It's just another lesson that how the authorities communicate is essential to the control of a pandemic and to this one because it's not over yet. voice-verified

Yeah, what they're doing is removing private security from the hotel quarantine. voice-verified

You're going to be decanted into, if you're positive, into a special mini hotel for positive people. voice-verified

You're going to pay people well and discourage and not allow voice-verified

workers in the hotels to work in other venues so the risk of spread there's going to be bubbles for people who work in in these areas and if they you know if there's a question mark over their accommodation they will be provided with accommodation in other words they're trying to create a security bubble around quarantine hotels which recognize that staff working there are at risk themselves voice-verified

but also at risk of spreading the disease. voice-verified

So much more intense governance, if you like, of the worker situation to solve some of the problems of people working in more than one location and not being properly trained and being used to it. voice-verified

In other words, moving around and not really getting good at the job. voice-verified

This should solve a lot of the problems. voice-verified

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