Advertisement Professor Michael Kidd AM – Australia’s Acting Chief Medical Officer – is a world expert on primary care. He is “the nation’s GP” as he says. Professor Kidd is confident that the vaccines will fight COVID-19, a virus that has killed over 2.5 million people globally and crammed ICU beds across Europe, North and Latin America, Asia and Africa. Optimism and confidence “I am optimistic, what we know from these vaccines is that they protect people from developing serious illness and the risk of death from COVID-19,” Professor Kidd said. Professor Kidd began his significant career in the 1980s in Melbourne then moved across Australia. In the 1990s, he was involved in the primary care response to HIV Aids.