qualified respected and well known the winner tonight is dr norman swan those are our australia as he's not our chief medical officer spoke to dr swan who gave us his take on his country's response and also the public's call for him to take charge. why would they want to condemn me to be the chief medical officer of the last drop in the world i want you know chief medical officers whether it's in russia or it's a thankless task there are new easy decisions where we realized that there was a vacuum of information where the public really where frightened and confused and unfortunately here who they weren't necessarily gazing at all the information they felt they needed we didn't and we didn't understand that of the time i've been a broadcast journalist in health for a long time so we thought we provide the service and simply answer people's questions and given the latest research it's still relatively low numbers when you think about what's going on in italy in america and other places but it's not good our doubling rate that's how how long it takes for 2000 to become $4000.00 cases is is

star dr norman swan told the a.b.c. network that far more checks in needed and he won the support of u.s. and health professionals to who now want him to lead the fight against the outbreak . i'm a doctor and would like dr norman swan to be the country's heart spokesperson during this crisis australia would have a fighting chance if norman swan was the chief medical officer nonpartisan no fluff qualified respected and well known the winner tonight is dr norman swan the losers are australia as he is not our chief medical officer but we spoke to dr swan who gave us his take on the country's response and also the public's call for him to take charge. why would they want to condemn me to be the chief medical officer of the last drop in the world i want you know chief medical officers whether it's in russia or australia it's a thankless task there are no easy decisions where we realized that there was a vacuum of information where the public really where frightened and confused and unfortunately here they weren't necessarily