COVID-19 in Australia: our national response to the first cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection during the early biocontainment phase.
Ramon Z ShabanCecilia LiMatthew V N O'SullivanJohn GerrardRhonda L StuartJoanne S K TehNicole GilroyTania C SorrellElizabeth WhiteShopna BagKate HackettSharon C A ChenJen KokDominic E DwyerJonathan R IredellSusan MaddocksPatricia FergusonKavita VarshneyIan CarterRuth BarrattMark RobertsonSai R BaskarCaren FriendRoselle S RobosaCristina Sotomayor-CastilloShizar NahidiDeborough A MacbethKylie A D AlcornAndre WattiauxFrederick MooreJamie McMahonWilliam NaughtonTony M KormanMike CattonRupa KanapathipillaiFinn RomanesEmily RoweJennifer CatfordBrendan KennedyMing QiaoDavid ShawPublished in: Internal medicine journal (2021)
This is a historical record of the first COVID-19 cases in Australia during the early biocontainment phase of the national response. These findings were invaluable for establishing early inpatient and outpatient COVID-19 models of care and informing the management of COVID-19 over time as the outbreak evolved. Future research should extend this Australian case series to examine global epidemiological variation of this novel infection.