Author Biography: A medical doctor and historian, Warwick Anderson is the Janet Dora Hine Professor of Politics, Governance and Ethics in the Department of History and the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney. His latest book (with Ian R. Mackay) is Intolerant Bodies: A Short History of Autoimmunity (Johns Hopkins, 2014). He has written on the beach as a space of contamination in the COVID-19 response, on the biopolitics of disease modelling, and on how not to have theory in an epidemic.