Medical expert gives evidence at thunderstorm asthma inquest

An inquest into the deaths of 10 people in Melbourne’s thunderstorm asthma event of 2016 has been told the time from onset of asthma flare-up to respiratory arrest was just 15 minutes. Giving evidence to the Victorian coronial inquest, Professor Jo Douglass, head of the Royal Melbourne Hospital’s department of allergy and clinical immunology, also noted ...