Health minister says professor and WHO advisor was ‘an incredibly calm, articulate voice at a time that was very frightening’
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Professor Mary-Louise McLaws, the epidemiologist who guided Australians through the Covid-19 pandemic, has died at the age of 70 from brain cancer.
McLaws died in her sleep on Saturday night, her husband Richard Flook said in a statement to the Sydney Morning Herald.
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