Queensland's fourth year of living with COVID-19 begins today – marking the anniversary of the first time the state's then Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young warned the public of a novel coronavirus emerging out of China.
On January 21, 2020, Dr Young told Queenslanders about a mystery new virus with reports of 200 patients being admitted to hospital in China, about nine of them identified as serious, and confirmation of human-to-human spread."It's a coronavirus, so it's transmitted the same way as with all the other coronaviruses, which is through the air."
The initial modelling by QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in October, 2021, predicted the deaths of 200 Queenslanders in the first three months after borders reopened. "We all have to have immunity. You will all have to develop immunity. There's two ways you can do that – by being vaccinated or getting infected. There are only two choices, there are only two ways to do that."More than a year later, Dr Gerrard is less certain about the future.
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