Dominic Dwyer: I work on the land of the Burramattagal people and I’d like to acknowledge the elders past, present and future.
The driving force of this program was we had something that was new, scary and we didn’t know how to react.
The key part of fighting COVID-19 was being able to make the diagnosis of the infection quickly so that public health could act and so the community could understand what was going on.
First of all, we’ve gotten a remarkable handle on this virus and secondly, we started to move pathology back to the people, and I think that’s been a very significant change.