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Donna Demaio: Covid 19 coronavirus - Plan to reopen Australia will cause 'substantial mortality', experts say
The Australian Prime Minister's plan to reopen the country at a 70-80 per cent vaccination rate and treat the Delta variant "like the flu" has been slammed as dangerous and reckless by some of the nation's top health and economic researchers.
According to modelling from the Australian National University, if Scott Morrison's current coronavirus plan proceeds, tens of thousands Australians will likely die and hundreds of thousands will likely develop cases of long Covid.
"We found substantial morbidity and mortality is likely to occur if the Australian government sticks to the national plan,"…
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