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The eight lessons to learn from the year of the plague – The Australian Financial Review
The first is that countries that lock down for longer to stamp the virus out have avoided a damaging open-shut cycle.
Initial evidence suggests that the COVID-19 vaccines are not only helping to reduce the scale of serious illness, but also reducing transmission. This could turn out to be spectacular news, and if stronger signs of the vaccines efficacy emerge mark the beginning of the pandemics end.
But if governments lift lockdowns too soon, the risk of new coronavirus mutations resistant to current vaccines will increase.
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