Health
Devastating cost of our COVID response – Gympie Times
Australia is leading the world when it comes to our fight against the deadly pandemic – but does the extreme cost outweigh the benefits?
Australia’s COVID-19 success is the envy of the world, with just 909 deaths more than 12 months after the deadly pandemic first reached our shores.
That feat has been breathlessly praised by the international media, with the Washington Post reporting in November that we had “almost eliminated the coronavirus by putting faith in science” and The New York Times celebrating the fact our “short, sharp responses have repeatedly subdued the virus and allowed a return to near normalcy”.
It is undeniably…
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