Paul Kelly on the risk of a COVID-19 second-wave

Politics with Michelle Grattan · May 12, 2020 · 46m

Speaking as an expert in epidemiology, Deputy Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly is candid about the prospects of a second-wave of coronavirus in a society that hasn't developed herd immunity.

"There is a very large risk of a second wave. We need to do this very carefully," he says, as Australia starts to roll back restrictions.

"We are potentially victims of our own success here because we have been so successful in minimising the first wave of infections, the vast majority of Australians have not actually been exposed to this virus in a way that could develop immunity in people or herd…