Submitted by Paul Daley on
He has the most evoked name in Australia thanks to the Covid-19 modelling that bears it. He talks politics, books, misinformation, and that tweet
As soon as Australia’s most famous medical scientist, the veterinary surgeon, immunologist and Nobel laureate Peter Doherty, answers his phone, it dawns on me that it is probably the worst time of day to call him.
It is 11am on a Tuesday morning. Eleven o’clock! We all know what that means. More grim news about New South Wales’ Covid-19 caseload and deaths. A premier wanting us not to dwell on infection numbers or the many more who will die but, counter-intuitively, on freedoms that might soon come with increased vaccination.
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