Articles / Realistic goals for COVID containment

This week’s expert:
Prof Raina MacIntyre, Head of the Biosecurity Program at the Kirby Institute, University of NSW
Drawn from Dr David Lim’s interview with Prof Raina MacIntyre on the Healthed Podcast, ‘Going Viral’.
• ‘Eradication’ of COVID-19 is often discussed as an aim for Australia. However, this displays a misunderstanding of the term eradication. By definition, eradication means the global absence of a disease.

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It should only change if there's clear evidence that a new model is better
It should remain independent and locally governed
It should be replaced with an untested national model
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