Please Explain podcast: The future of hotel quarantine and Australia's vaccine hopes
One of Australia’s top infection-control experts has joined increasing calls for COVID-19 quarantine to be taken to regional facilities after the virus escaped hotels in Melbourne and Adelaide.
While Moderna and Pfizer vaccine trials are showing encouraging results in America, millions of taxpayer dollars have been spent on dozens of Australian clinical trials that have largely failed to produce new knowledge.
Researchers say a lack of national leadership meant far too many clinical trials were set up for a range of potential COVID-19 drugs which were left to compete for a limited pool of patients.
In this episode, national editor Tory Maguire and national science reporter Liam Mannix discuss the future of hotel quarantine and the international COVID-19 vaccine effort.
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Tory is the national editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. She has held senior roles at a number of major Australian mastheads and was most recently editor-in-chief of HuffPost Australia for two-and-a-half years.