Are hotels the best way of managing quarantine?

Governments in Australia and New Zealand are scrambling to find out more about recent coronavirus cases that appear to have escaped from hotel quarantine.

NSW Health is looking into how a security guard became infected with coronavirus while working at a hotel quarantine facility in early August.

And in New Zealand, a maintenance worker at a hotel managed isolation facility has been infected by a returned traveller from the USA, but no obvious person-to-person connection has been identified.

And don’t forget the huge problems in Victoria.

So it raises the question: are hotels the best way of managing COVID quarantine?

On today’s show:

* With new possible hotel quarantine breaches in NSW and New Zealand, are hotels the best way to manage quarantine?

* Isn’t it inevitable that when humans are close together, the virus will find a way eventually?

* Why are we still talking about superspreaders when we should be talking about superspreading environments?

* Why are we still talking a lot about washing hands when it seems the main source of infection is aerosols?

* Can you please clarify about valve masks?

* How does a pandemic end? Everyone gets infected? Vaccine?

* Why don’t we do a lockdown every year for the flu?

Tagged as: COVID-19, Coronacast.