Should ‘ring vaccination’ begin immediately to bring northern beaches COVID-19 outbreak under control?

Now is the time to roll out a coronavirus vaccine, to smother the northern beaches outbreak using a strategy known as “ring vaccination,” according to some leading experts.

In addition to tracing and isolating known contacts of COVID-19 cases, the strategy would involve vaccinating those contacts too.

Ring vaccination was used to successfully eradicate smallpox, and epidemiologist Professor Raina McIntyre said it was likely to help with COVID-19 too.

“I think if there’s an outbreak…