Jan 8: Dr. Joseph Blondeau, Threat of New Covid Variant in 2023.
Roy Green Show
English - January 08, 2023 22:15 - 16 minutes - ★★★★ - 3 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 is the new threat, but how much of a threat? Is this the year Covid should be declared endemic instead of a public health emergency, particularly as it continues to mutate and present itself in potentially more dangerous forms? - Are vaccines and boosters the answer to keep the wraps on Covid largely in '23? - Preceding variants. How much of a threat do they continue to present. - Vaccines and boosters.
As well: So-called superbugs resistent to antibiotics. England's chief public health officer has warned of an apocalypse should superbugs largely negate antibiotics.
Guest: Dr. Joseph Blondeau. Clinical microbiologist and head of Clinical microbiology at Saskatoon's Royal University Hospital and the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Blondeau is a globally respected leader in microbiology and has published in excess of 160 peer reviewed manuscripts. Recent recipient of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Medal
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Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 is the new threat, but how much of a threat? Is this the year Covid should be declared endemic instead of a public health emergency, particularly as it continues to mutate and present itself in potentially more dangerous forms? - Are vaccines and boosters the answer to keep the wraps on Covid largely in '23? - Preceding variants. How much of a threat do they continue to present. - Vaccines and boosters.
As well: So-called superbugs resistent to antibiotics. England's chief public health officer has warned of an apocalypse should superbugs largely negate antibiotics.
Guest: Dr. Joseph Blondeau. Clinical microbiologist and head of Clinical microbiology at Saskatoon's Royal University Hospital and the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Blondeau is a globally respected leader in microbiology and has published in excess of 160 peer reviewed manuscripts. Recent recipient of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Medal
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