Australia will spend $252 million on a US-style Centre for Disease Control to try to overcome gaps between levels of governments and their agencies, which allowed misinformation and fuelled public distrust of health measures to contain COVID-19.
But the new centre would not have the power to direct states or overrule state and territory chief health officers if a crisis of the pandemic’s magnitude were repeated, federal Health Minister Mark Butler said.
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