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Read more about the article Wrong moment to talk about “opening up”

Wrong moment to talk about “opening up”

August 26, 2021 Comment by Greg Ray They’ve been vaccinated. They are staying out of harm’s way. If they get sick they will get the best care our money can buy. And all they want to talk about is when we can “open up again”. Here in NSW we are looking down the barrel of Covid disaster, just like we’ve seen it overseas, and opening up is what matters? If you wanted still more evidence that the nation’s leaders aren’t working for us then here it is. I mean, it’s no surprise. Here’s a bloke who,…

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Read more about the article Back to flattening the curve

Back to flattening the curve

This round of Covid-19 has got me thinking about how things were when it began. When we speculated - wrongly - that the virus was easily transmissible from surfaces, that the early strain was extremely contagious and that it might take years to find a vaccine. Back then all the talk was of "flattening the curve", which meant we assumed most of us were going to be exposed to the virus but we hoped that by being careful we could keep the numbers of infected people from skyrocketing all at once. Our goal was to stop…

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Read more about the article We are all epidemiologists
Graphic from Rasmussen University

We are all epidemiologists

These days, it seems, everybody is an epidemiologist. If only. If only we could all adopt the habit of thinking in terms of population health - which is what epidemiologists do - then life would definitely be a lot better for a great many of us. But population health can be a little tricky to fully grasp, I find, and even trickier to use as the basis for personal decision-making. The tricky side of population health has been brought to the top of my mind recently by a lot of articles about the efficacy of vaccines,…

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