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The 12.39am email that triggered Australia’s response to COVID-19 – Sydney Morning Herald
As a novel coronavirus seeped from Wuhan to the rest of China and landed on our shores, our health scientists were already at work. Eleven months later, they still…
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Epidemiologist Professor Jodie McVernon was in the Qantas lounge at Canberra airport on the evening of Monday, February 3, when she took an urgent call from Brendan Murphy, then the Commonwealths chief medical officer.
McVernon had for days been “obsessively” tracking information on the mysterious new virus seeping out of Wuhan, China, and was preparing to fly home to Melbourne after lengthy meetings in the national capital. But Murphy had a fresh…
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