Reflecting on Australia's Health Services Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: What can be Learned?
At the beginning of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, giving rise to one of the largest international public health responses in history. The infectious nature of human to human transmission, lack of personal protective equipment and significant lethality of COVID-19 forced unprecedented adaptation and response of health services. The COVID-19 pandemic markedly transformed the delivery of preventive and therapeutic health services, as well as aged care services. As a country, Australia may be a useful example understand the challenges and share the strategies in response to the COVI...