This ‘COVID-19 Pandemic Trade-Offs’ Report throws light on what next year might look like once we open up to the world Objective: This report draws out the important findings from version 3 of COVID-19 Pandemic Tradeoffs modelling, complemented by the interactive web-tool available online at pandemictradeoffs.com. In this report, we focus on the year after […]
Christmas COVID-19 peak ‘will overwhelm NSW hospitals’
he current NSW reopening plan risks a Christmas COVID-19 spike that could overwhelm intensive care units for five weeks and drive the total number of Delta deaths beyond 1000, a group of experienced Australian scientists have warned.The recently formed OzSAGE group has released modelling suggesting relaxing of restrictions when there is still high community transmission […]
Life Beyond Lockdown: OzSAGE strategies to ease Australian COVID surge
Introduction by Croakey: The ongoing Sydney Delta outbreak has sent shockwaves across Australia — and, indeed, the Tasman — forcing a volte-face on elimination ambitions in favour of a so-called “living with COVID” strategy. The New South Wales Government’s vaccine-driven plans to start easing restrictions, even as it continues to report more than 1,000 new […]