Navigating shifting waters: rapid response to change in the era of COVID‐19.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Johnson, Douglas F.; Steinfort, Daniel P.; Cowie, Benjamin
- Source
- Internal Medicine Journal. Jul2020, Vol. 50 Issue 7, p786-790. 5p.
- Subject
- *PREVENTION of epidemics
*INFECTIOUS disease transmission
*DIFFUSION of innovations
*EMERGENCY management
*HEALTH services accessibility
*MEDICAL care
*PUBLIC health
*TELEMEDICINE
*COVID-19
- Language
- ISSN
- 1444-0903
The article discusses the impact of the emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 on medical practice in 2020. Topics mentioned include expansion in the capacity of public and private pathology services to meet the testing demand, a drop in weekly face-to-face consultations across five Australian Primary Health Networks from February to April 2020, and the cumulative COVID-19 related deaths reported to the World Health Organization from New Zealand and Australia.