Outgoing Health and Aged Care Department Secretary Professor Brendan Murphy says nothing stands out as a “significant failure in advice” during the COVID-19 pandemic.
He said they may have “underestimated” the complexity of getting vaccines into aged care and disability sectors.
“If we did that again we would probably do that in a different way, but overall, I think we did pretty well,” he told Sky News Australia.
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