Navigating shifting waters: rapid response to change in the era of COVID‐19.

The article discusses the impact of the emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 on medical practice in 2020. Topics mentioned include expansion in the capacity of public and private pathology services to meet the testing demand, a drop in weekly face-to-face consultations across five Australian Primary Health Networks from February to April 2020, and the cumulative COVID-19 related deaths reported to the World Health Organization from New Zealand and Australia.