Health
Coronavirus strategies: Should Australia pursue ‘suppression’ or ‘elimination’? – Yahoo News Australia
They’re touted as frameworks to tackle the coronavirus pandemic – but what do these strategies actually involve?
The current surge in community transmission of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Victoria has brought renewed discussion of whether Australia should maintain its current suppression strategy, or pursue an elimination strategy instead.
But what do these terms actually mean, and what are the differences between the two?
In theory
Disease eradication means a global absence of the pathogen (except in laboratories). We achieved this for smallpox in 1980. Diseases suitable for eradication are usually those…
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