When Craig Dalton heard that his name came up at a nationally televised White House press briefing Monday, the medical epidemiologist at the University of Newcastle in Australia says, “I didn’t believe it ” Dalton did a quick web search and his disbelief transformed into amazement “Turned out, it was actually true,” he told ScienceInsider Dalton’s unexpected moment in the media spotlight came as Deborah Birx, the White House’s coronavirus response coordinator, and Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, stepped to the White House lectern to describe a new set of guidelines that the U S government would distribute as part of its effort to slow the spread of the illness caused by the novel coronavirus in the United States
How an Australian researcher ended up in the spotlight at a White House coronavirus briefing ;Science ;AAAS