http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/how-australian-researcher-ended-spotlight-white-house-coronavirus-briefing

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.