35,000 infections: the cost of a one-week delay in COVID clampdown
Australia’s COVID-19 restrictions came just in time to avert disaster, with new modelling showing waiting just one more week risked infections ballooning to 35,000. Waiting another to introduce border closures and social distancing measuring could have led to a five-fold increase in Australia’s current infections.
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