The 9pm National Plan to Plan to Have a COVID-19 Plan with Upulie Divisekera and Dr Trent Yarwood

Upulie Divisekera (left) and Dr Trent Yarwood. (Photos: Supplied, digital processing by Stilgherrian)

The Late Winter Series 2021 of the Edict continues with a look at how Australia is handling the COVID-19 pandemic. Our guests are science communicator and medical researcher Upulie Divisekera and infectious diseases physician Dr Trent Yarwood.

We talk about the snappily-titled National Plan to transition Australia’s National COVID-19 Response, the supporting modelling from Doherty Epidemiology, how Twitter science is the very best science, hazelnut chocolate, mRNA vaccines, gut parasites, the Reckon Vacuum, vaccine hesitancy, the politicisation of the pandemic response, and much more.

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