COVID-19 Q&A with Professor Dale Fisher Professor Dale Fisher

Dr Louisa Sun asks Professor Dale Fisher the topical questions of the week. From next week, we'll be taking a break from this podcast and including an update on topical subjects in Professor Dale's segment at the end of the NUS/GOARN Covid Webinar. Register here: https://bit.ly/2xO28G5 or catch-up on missed webinars on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/2MYmEI5
 

Today Professor Dale Fisher talks to Dr Louisa Sun about the latest status of the virus, options for protecting each other - masks, face shields and cleaning, how travel could work, and a new myth busting section addressing recent media reports; is COVID-19 a blood disease; and are there man-made insertions in SARS-COV-2 DNA.

Professor Dale Fisher talks to Dr Louisa Sun about the key COVID-19 issues and update this week. In today's podcast:
1. The news that Singapore is ending isolation after 21 days. 
2. Lockdown lifting around the world with a warning from Professor Fisher that even hard-hit Manhattan is not close to herd immunity.
3. How COVID-19 has changed medical reporting and how we should view media reporting about vaccines;
4. Second infections.

Join Doctor Louisa Sun as she puts the COVID-19 questions of the week to Professor Dale Fisher of NUS and NUH in Singapore.
This week's episode addresses:
a) lockdowns ending: good news/cause for concern?
b) What is R0 & what does it mean for future outbreak handling?  
c) Herd Immunity - can countries get there and what are the implications?
d) News of vaccines and more-reliable tests we are seeing: can we celebrate?

Doctor Louisa Sun and Professor Dale Fisher answer your questions on the latest COVID-19 developments.
Not medical advice