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Professor Brendan Murphy started off 2020 like a lot of fortunate Australians would have. He was on holidays in Rome with his family and by the time he had arrived back in Melbourne, a new virus had begun spreading through a Chinese city called Wuhan. Unlike other Australians, however, the recent ACT Australian of the Year nominee was the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of the country, responsible for advising the health minister and department and responding to health crises. He’d heard reports there were around 50 cases but by…
