Australians must change the way they live and accept the threat from COVID-19 and other viral infections will persist, an epidemiologist says.
Professor Raina MacIntyre, who leads the biosecurity program at the Kirby Institute in Sydney, says people are wrong to think the pandemic is over.
"The counter-narratives that are flying around, 'Let's get back to normal, take off your masks', it's denial," she told AAP.
