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What Australia's Covid Frontman Regrets

As the Hantavirus and Ebola pop up in the news, what did we get wrong during Covid?

Dr Nick Coatsworth was the Australian government’s deputy chief medical officer during the pandemic’s first wave, when he regularly appeared on radio and TV to provide the public with information. He became the face of the vaccine rollout. Today, he’s more reflective. He shuns vaccine mandates, wants a national Covid inquiry, and opposes policies that would ban health “misinformation”.

Earlier in his career, as an expert in infectious and respiratory diseases, Nick led humanitarian teams in the Congo and in…

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