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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