In my own defense, I was worried that India had exported three times as many vaccines as it had administered domestically.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Australia needed "a gear change" to manage overburdened testing labs, with long walk-in and drive-in queues in a number of areas.
His minister for health is a qualified doctor and what's more, chairs the World Health Organisation's executive board.
More than a hundred countries have sent planeloads of medical aid to India but the management of the supplies has become another issue in the country that lacks basic logistics and distribution system.