Special Episode 1. COVID-19 Vaccinations with Professor Gabriel Barbash
Australia is in the dawn of its vaccination program against SARS-COV2, inoculations commenced this week among frontline health workers and aged care residents as well as our Prime Minister. By comparison, Israel’s vaccination rollout has been the fastest in the world, half the population has received one dose already and one third has received both inoculations.
In a sense, Israel has become a real-time global experiment watched by health authorities and governments across the locked down world as Israel opens itself up again to those vaccinated. Australia has much to learn from their experience. In this special episode we are joined by Professor Gabriel Barbash from Israel, Professor of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine in the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University and at the forefront of Israel’s inoculation program who discusses :
•Vaccine choices
•Vaccine safety and efficacy
•Mutant strains - their impact
•Special cases to consider - the immunosuppressed patient, those with previous allergies, Guillain Barre, •Pregnant and breastfeeding women
•Herd immunity
•Children and vaccination
This was a fascinating conversation and I was deeply honoured to have Professor Barbash join us with many key points covered. Please enjoy.
References
www.nejm.org/covid-vaccine/faq
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Dr Luke Crantock MBBS, FRACP, is a gastroenterologist in practice for over 25 years. He is the founder of The Centre for GI Health, based in Melbourne Australia and is passionate about educating General Practitioners and patients on disease prevention and how to manage and improve their digestive health.