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

I don't know the detail of other states and territories. voice-verified

However, there have been very few cases of cases slipping away from control. voice-verified

A key variable seems to be to have some sort of medical governance of it so that you've got oversight by doctors and nurses of the situation. voice-verified

So in Victoria, when they got their act together, they put the Alfred Hospital in charge of the clinical side of things. voice-verified

In New South Wales, I think it's Royal Prince Alfred, at least for some of it. voice-verified

But I'm not quite sure what happens in other states. voice-verified

But certainly you've got a very, very strong clinical input to make this safe as well. voice-verified

Well, new people are coming into Victoria, to Western Australia all the time with coronavirus. voice-verified

Ships are docking with coronavirus and there is a chance that it will be happening. voice-verified

So I think it's fantastic that you've been getting your kids tested and unfortunately I think you're going to have to continue for a while yet because even though there's none, one of the things that keeps us safe is a fairly high degree of testing and you just never know. voice-verified

All really important questions. voice-verified

Well, from the press releases, they're saying that there are minimal safety problems. voice-verified

So people were getting maybe some people feeling a little bit unwell. voice-verified

They had a painful arm as a result of the vaccine. voice-verified

A painful arm, by the way, shows that the vaccine is generating an immune response. voice-verified

So that's partly an immune response from the vaccine. voice-verified

In terms of the selection of participants, that's going to be a key question for the regulators as to just who they got into their trials. voice-verified

They were encouraged to have a lot of older people in their trials. voice-verified

They were encouraged to have people with multiple problems. voice-verified

But did that end up being the case? voice-verified

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