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Lockdowns don’t ‘crush’ anything: with a COVID outbreak every 12 days this year, this is how each state responded – WAtoday

Infectious disease experts are calling for a less panicked response to small outbreaks after an analysis revealed two-thirds of the past 17 breaches have been managed…

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You affect 3000 people instead of a city of six million but youre actually targeting the people who are a measurable risk.
The third ring strategy was used during the Holiday Inn outbreak in Melbourne, when a returned traveller using a nebuliser in hotel quarantine infected several people.
Professor Catherine Bennett, chair of epidemiology at Deakin University. Credit:Jason South
The decision to plunge Victoria into a five-day stay-at-home order was made five days later, after 13 cases with known…

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