MY COVID LIFE with Dr Norman Swan

Treasure your grandkids, see beauty in nature and sneeze into your elbow. It’s been a year of life lessons for the ABC’s resident medical reporter, both personally and professionally.

It’s not even two years since there was probably only one person in the whole wide world with what we now know is COVID-19. Not even two years, and it’s just over 18 months since it became clear we were facing a pandemic. I don’t know about you, but for the last 18 months, each day has felt like a week and each week like a month to me. Some nights I sleep, some nights I don’t. And when I don’t, I do what I tell everyone else not to (first rule of medicine: do as I say, not as I do) – I reach for the phone to scan the journals, latest data, international headlines and expert commentary. And yep, that’s me up all night – that screen glow…

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The Australian Women's Weekly (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2021

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