‘We prepared for the worst, now we’re cautiously optimistic’
Five weeks on from the start of Australia's COVID-19 experience, doctors tell Four Corners how they feel about the pandemic
Five weeks ago, as Australian doctors watched the pandemic unfolding in Italy and Spain, they prepared their own hospitals and practices for the potential disaster that lay ahead.
They feared the worst, laying out their concerns for themselves, their families and patients in video diaries featured on ABC TV’s Four Corners.
Now, five weeks later as numbers of new daily cases drop to below 20, they’re expressing relief, gratitude to the community and cautious optimism.
Video diaries of doctors and healthcare workers featured on Four Corners at the beginning of April have recorded their changing perspectives as the curve flattened.
