The Australian Women's Weekly

MY COVID LIFE with Dr Norman Swan

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

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