Kristine Macartney's guest appearances

Kristine Macartney

The Mike Hosking Breakfast

Going Viral Podcast

2GB Drive with Chris O'Keefe

Raina MacIntyre

Carol Lee

Helen Davidson

Sean Carmichael

Ian Taylor

Danielle Cormack

Andrew Bates

Jason Pine

Shane Te Pou

Leonie Freeman

Andrew Hoggard

Jo McCarroll

Phil Goff

David Farrar

Stephen Jacobi

OwlTail

In this Episode:  What does the recent Australian school study tell us about COVID risk in schools and child care? If children can go to school, why can’t grandparents see their grandchildren? What do we do about children’s immunisation, especially flu vaccine in the age of COVID?  Host: Dr Harry Nespolon, GP and RACGP President Guests: Prof Kristine Macartney, Paediatric Infectious Disease Consultant, The Children's Hospital at Westmead; Director, NCIRS; Professor, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney Total time: 29 minsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this Episode: <ul> <li>What does the recent Australian school study tell us about COVID risk in schools and child care?</li> <li>If children can go to school, why can’t grandparents see their grandchildren?</li> <li>What do we do about children’s immunisation, especially flu vaccine in the age of COVID? </li> </ul> Host: Dr Harry Nespolon, GP and RACGP President Guests: Prof Kristine Macartney, Paediatric Infectious Disease Consultant, The Children's Hospital at Westmead; Director, NCIRS; Professor, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney Total time: 29 minsSee <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Going Viral: Prof Kristine Macartney on the recent Australian school study on COVID risk in schools

A new study has looked at the spread of Covid-19 at New South Wales schools from nine teachers and nine students with the disease.It's found only two children caught the disease from those people at school.There was no evidence of children infecting teachers.Lead researcher Kristine Macartney told Mike Hosking there are very low rates of infection of Covid-19 among children and if they do get it, they have mild symptoms.She says viruses, like influenza, spread very quickly throughout schools but Covid 19 doesn't.LISTEN ABOVE

A new study has looked at the spread of Covid-19 at New South Wales schools from nine teachers and nine students with the disease. It's found only two children caught the disease from those people at school. There was no evidence of children infecting teachers. Lead researcher Kristine Macartney told Mike Hosking there are very low rates of infection of Covid-19 among children and if they do get it, they have mild symptoms. She says viruses, like influenza, spread very quickly throughout schools but Covid 19 doesn't. LISTEN ABOVE

Kristine Macartney: Study finds no evidence of children infecting teachers with Covid-19 in Australia