COVID-19: Can we get Australia back to work in four weeks?

By Abbey Perumpanani

April 3, 2020

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Dr Abbey Perumpanani presents a well thought-out strategy to mitigate the COVID-19 risk among the most vulnerable group — the over-65s — and that could see the rest of us back at work in a month.

The COVID-19 crisis has caught us with our biological and epidemiological pants down. Governments around the world have reacted with urgency and implemented different strategies that have three features in common.

First, to isolate people from each other large parts of the economy have been shut down.

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