It was all going so well…until it wasn’t.
Join leading experts from the University of Melbourne as they explore how Victoria re-entered lockdown and Australia has been split into two.
🚨 What has been the impact on the community, when research shows us 1 in 10 women have suffered physical or sexual abuse, or some form of coercive control during the pandemic?
😷 What does the evidence tell us about face masks?
🦠 Is elimination a practical option, and will this help or hinder us as we seek to re-join the global community?
🤷♀️ Will a vaccine work as well as herd immunity? And what are the true costs of the lockdown – to the economy, to our community and our health?
Panellists 👥 🎓
🔷 Professor Sharon Lewin AO, Director, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
🔷 Professor Cathy Humphreys, Professor of Social Work, Melbourne School of Health Sciences and co-Chair of the Melbourne Alliance to End Violence Against Women and Their Children
🔷 Professor Tony Blakely, Director of the Population Interventions Unit, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Panel moderated by 👤🎓
🔷 Professor Shitij Kapur, Dean Medicine, Dentistry and Health Science and Vice-Chancellor (Health), University of Melbourne
Discussion breakdown ⤵️
01:41 – What is the most important consideration as we look at our way out of this lockdown?
02:43 – Why has there been a second wave?
04:38 – Is it possible to maintain a low infection rate?
06:31 – Why is it now possible and desirable to go for the eradication strategy?
08:31 – What does ‘going harder in lockdown’ for six weeks look like? ie mandatory mask-wearing
10:02 – How does a hard lockdown increase our chances of eliminating covid-19 in VIC?
11:45 – What do we know about the way the first lockdown impacted Victorians?
13:52 – What’s it been like for residents of the towers that have been on hard lockdown?
14:51 – Could we have taken a different approach to locking down the towers?
16:06 – How has lockdown affected domestic violence cases?
17:38 – What is an achievable target for community infection numbers?
20:46 – Why are politicians distancing themselves from a hard lockdown approach?
22:57 – Face masks: the science behind it, policy-making, cultural factors that influence uptake
25:43 – How would mask-wearing impact vulnerable communities?
28:03 – Where are we at with the development of a vaccine?
31:08 – if we develop a successful vaccine, what are the next steps?
32:30 – Who would get the vaccine first?
33:18 – Will there be resistance to a vaccine from communities?
34:55 – How do you mobilise community leaders in an age of lockdown?
36:49 – What is herd immunity?
39:22 – Natural immunity vs a vaccine – which is more effective?
40:58 – What is the longterm impact of this pandemic on vulnerable Victorians?
42:20 – Where should resources be directed?
43:51 – Where do you find hope in all of this?
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