GPs scramble to navigate vaccine rollouts amid worsening floods

Ripped up carpet, towels on the floor and telehealth: How GPs have kept serving their community, even as the torrential rain covering large parts of Australia shows no sign of stopping.

Thousands of people have been evacuated as swollen rivers flood towns and torrential rain continues. (Image: AAP)

‘Nobody can really remember a prolonged wet period like this. We started out with drought in 2019, bushfires at the end of 2019, then COVID, and now floods – it’s just another thing on top.’