Interview with Mary-Louise McLaws on the airborne spread of COVID-19, contact tracing, & Long COVID

Professor Mary-Louise McLaws is an epidemiologist at UNSW, and a member of the WHO’s Advisory Panel for Infection, Prevention and Control Preparedness and Response to COVID-19. Mary-Louise returns for an in-depth look at best practice contact tracing methods and what should be improved in Australia, as well as the evidence for the airborne spread of COVID-19 via aerosol particles. Mary-Louise shares what appropriate ventilation systems should be in place in schools and workplaces in order to reduce airborne transmission and how to do this. She also discusses 'Long-COVID' - the now widely known fact that COVID-19 causes medium and potentially long-term chronic illness and disability in approximately 1 in 5 people, including in previously healthy adults. Broadcast on 8 December 2020.