Professor Brendan Crabb, director and chief executive of the Burnet Institute, admits to breaking his own COVID rule and contracting the virus. Thousands of Australians are facing a similar situation as COVID surges again.
When Brendan Crabb finally caught COVID for the first time late last year, it was because he'd broken his own rule — he took a risk he says he shouldn't have. Since 2020 Professor Crabb, director and chief executive of the Burnet Institute , had been sticking to a rigorous anti- COVID routine, effectively using layers of protections to avoid getting the virus.
And then in a moment of lapsed judgement, he joined a crowd of hundreds of people at an awards event in a small room in Sydney, without his portable air purifier and N95 mask. "The waiters couldn't even get to us to give us a drink," he says — it was that tightly packed. "That's a situation I never get myself into … and three days later, I tested positive." Fast-forward a couple of months and a similar story has been playing out for thousands of Australians as COVID surges again. Partly it's because thehas driven a worldwide spike in infections, hospitalisations and death
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