Very interesting/depressing to hear Australia used as the main case study in today’s ep of The Daily as a country that absolutely fucked its vaccine rollout and is now vulnerable to more deaths and lockdowns. But tHaNk GoD wE aReNt ThE ReSt oF ThE wOrLd “It’s interesting that a country like Australia is relatively wealthy but does not have a great vaccine supply,” Carl Zimmer, a NYT science writer and columnist said when interviewed. “I think, in those cases like Australia, one of the reasons is that they thought they had this covered. They thought [they had] very strict, rigorous public health measures: contact tracing, testing, very, very strict limits on travel.”