Health
Patient zero to heroes: Our first year of COVID-19 – Whitsunday Times
He often wondered if the pandemic he’d spent a lifetime preparing for was science fiction. Then, a year ago, it turned very real. TIMELINE
John Gerrard admits he’d often wondered whether the big global pandemic he’d spent decades planning and training for as an infectious disease physician was nothing more than fanciful science fiction.
But that changed exactly a year ago today, when a sick tourist from the Chinese city of Wuhan was diagnosed on the Gold Coast with a mystery coronavirus that had started sweeping the world.
The 44-year-old man, part of a travelling group of nine from Wuhan, was Queensland’s patient zero, the first confirmed…
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