14-02-2020 20:00 via theguardian.com

'Things are changing so quickly': will Australia cope with coronavirus if the worst happens?

Doctors have praised preparations so far, but want an Australian national body like the European Centre for Disease Control“What everyone is worried about is 1918 – Spanish flu. Fifty million deaths in a flu season. That was over 100,000 deaths a day.”Prof Mark Walker, the director of the Australian Infectious Disease Research Centre at the University of Queensland, says Australia has had to respond to the novel coronavirus outbreak by imagining the worst that might happen. Rel
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