Victorian Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton has told healthcare workers at a private seminar that Australia should not pursue a CCP virus elimination strategy but instead prepare the public to accept that community transmission will occur even when enough are vaccinated, and international borders reopen. Sutton believes Australians may not feel an urgency about the virus because of the country’s almost zero rates of community transmission, but he warned that it could change one day. “We need to somehow communicate to the public that we’ve gotten to a place of complacency because we’ve driven transmission to zero, but we will face newly emerging transmission and a critical juncture where we need to make a call on letting it run,” Sutton said at a seminar held in April, according to leaked audio obtained by The Age. This may happen when Australia has enough of the adult population immunised, and confidence in …