| Next Monday night on Q+A, Hamish Macdonald is joined by a panel of frontline workers and medical experts leading the fight against COVID in this country.
They’re in our emergency departments, aged care homes and guiding our community response... seeing first-hand how quickly this virus can slip beyond our control.
Victoria has hit a new record with 723 cases, with Melbourne, health care workers increasingly getting infected themselves.
In NSW, hospital staff are bracing for a second wave, and dealing with recovered patients with significant post-viral syndromes and Queensland is trying to contain its first community transmission cluster in months.
It’s clear we will be living with COVID for quite some time, and these are the people we will be relying on.
What are the lessons learned so far? Are we becoming too complacent? How are the hospitals and the frontline staff holding up? What is different about this 2nd wave?
So what’s your question for our specialist panel?
Joining Hamish on the panel live:
Kerryn Phelps, Former AMA President and City of Sydney councillor
Lucy Morgan, Respiratory physician, Nepean Hospital
Vyom Sharma, General Practitioner
Abbey Fistrovic, Clinical Nurse Specialist
Fifth Panellist TBC
Please submit a question via our website by 9am Monday for the chance to ask the panel.
Watch Q+A Monday 9.35pm on ABC TV, streamed live 9.35pm AEST on ABC iview or on our website. |
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Get to know the panellists |
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 | Dr Kerryn Phelps has been a vocal supporter of increased mask use in efforts to curb community transmission of COVID-19. | Read via ABC NEWS |
|  | Appearing on #QandA in April, Dr Lucy Morgan described the ways in which the health of COVID-19 patients deteriorates. | Watch via Q+A |
|  | The exemptions allowing Melbournians not to wear masks are far too broad and could make the directive ineffective, says Melbourne GP Dr Vyom Sharma. | Listen via ABC Radio |
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| | | | | Q+A is taking questions from every corner of Australia. Upload your video to the Q+A website by 9am Monday for the chance to question the panel. | |
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