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Lunch with Prof.Raina MacIntyre: cautious coronavirus communicator: By Helen Pitt Sydney Morning Herald, April 25, 2020 Professor Raina MacIntyre, one of the world’s leading emerging infectious diseases experts has barely budged from the bedroom of her Wahroonga home since the outbreak of COVID-19 in Australia. The globally-renowned epidemiologist’s clear-yet-cautious tone has made her a familiar face and voice on most things coronavirus related on television and radio: all calmly delivered from her bedroom, where she continues her research almost around the clock. Occasionally, she sleeps there too. Each day she rises between 4 and 5 am, takes her three dogs – a Doberman, a bull arab and a greyhound shepherd cross – for a quick walk, then is back at her desk with strong coffee and hundreds of emails. She spent this past Tuesday, her 56th birthday, giving an online lecture from home on what she calls the herd immunity “myth” and ...