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Playing to the peanut gallery

Chicken Little doctors at the AMA go off-piste

22 January 2022

9:00 AM

22 January 2022

9:00 AM

I did get a chuckle the other day when Dr Nick Coatsworth, former deputy chief medical officer and infectious diseases specialist, described the Australian Medical Association as a peanut gallery. He did so in response to yet another Chicken Little press release from the AMA about Australia’s booster vaccine program falling behind, leading to ‘a repeat of mistakes seen overseas where Omicron is spreading rapidly’.

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