The man who’s advised the United States through the COVID-19 pandemic has issued a stark warning for Australia and the rest of the world.
Dr Anthony Fauci said it didn’t matter if Australia had coronavirus cases under control, every country needed to be on top of the disease in order to maintain the threat.
The top infectious diseases expert in the US spoke about how Australia had handled the pandemic in a lecture for the University of New South Wales tonight.
He praised the “capability and uniformity of citizens” in Australia when we went into lockdown and emerged from it.
“When you shut down, you really shut down, very effectively,” he said via video for the Inaugural David Cooper Lecture.
“Then when you had a situation where you opened up again, you responded quickly and efficiently and I’m sure not everybody in Australia was excited about having to shut things down but you did it in a way which was really quite uniform, but importantly, effective.
“If you look at…