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"Over the past two years, Australians have become familiar with the threat of
infectious disease outbreaks. COVID won’t be the last pandemic to affect our
lives.
Early, aggressive restrictions were generally seen as necessary. But they also
caused hardship, exacerbated inequality and undermined trust in government.
The pandemic exposed differences between states and territories. We saw
inadequate national coordination of disease tracking, data analysis, lab
capacity to process PCR tests, vaccination uptake and communication. This
prompted renewed calls for the establishment of an Australian centre for
disease control (CDC).
Before the election, Labor leader Anthony Albanese expressed the view that
Australia’s COVID response had been undermined by a breakdown in our federated
system and noted Australia was the only OECD country without a CDC. He
committed to establishing one if elected.
So what should an Australian CDC look like? And how can it improve our response
to future infectious disease outbreaks?"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
