How will an Australian ‘centre for disease control’ prepare us for the next pandemic?
COVID-19 won’t be the last pandemic to affect our lives.
But COVID-19 exposed differences between states and territories.
We saw inadequate national co-ordination of disease tracking, data analysis, lab capacity to process PCR tests, vaccination uptake and communication.
It was this which prompted renewed calls for the establishment of an Australian centre for disease control (CDC).
