Dr Lucas De Toca, COVID-19 Primary Care Response First Assistant Secretary, answers the Top Three questions across our channels.
Hello. My name is Dr Lucas De Toca, and I work for the Department of Health. I'm speaking today from Ngunnawal country, on Ngunnawal Dhawura, so I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of this land and any Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewer with us here today.Today is all about winter preparedness.
As the refrain goes, winter is coming. We are weeks away from formally commencing winter, and we are seeing COVID cases continuing to increase, as well as very rapidly increasing cases of flu.
After two years without really a flu season, it's very clear that this year we will have a flu season and it's likely to be a big one, especially given that we are testing more than we have before.So, we are going to talk about what you can do from a COVID booster preparedness, we are going to talk about flu vaccine, and we are going to talk about COVID oral treatments.