Anti-vaxxers menace GPs and the floods kill respected rheumatologist

In our series this week, AusDoc takes a brief look back on what has been a traumatic year.
January marked Australia’s COVID-19 high point, with about 175,000 new cases recorded on one day alone.
The nation was then engulfed by chaos around rapid antigen tests (RATs), with then Prime Minister Scott Morrison declaring that the tests were adequate for diagnosing SARS-CoV-2 infection – instantly making RATs a scarce resource as demand skyrocketed.