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Australian COVID-19 response saved 16,000 lives: Medical Journal of Australia report – NEWS.com.au
Australian COVID-19 response saved 16,000 lives: Medical Journal of Australia report

More than 16,000 people would have died if Australia had a coronavirus outbreak similar to the levels experienced in England and Wales, new modelling shows.The research, published in an article in the Medical Journal of Australia on Monday, used mortality data at the peak of the COVID-19 outbreak in March and April to calculate the number of excess lives that would have been lost if Australia’s coronavirus outbreak was widespread as in the UK.
The modelling calculated that there would have been…
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