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Has Australia really avoided 14,000 coronavirus deaths?

  • Written by Adrian Esterman, Professor of Biostatistics, University of South Australia
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Australia’s chief medical officer Brendan Murphy told a senate inquiry earlier this week our COVID-19 public health response had avoided about 14,000 deaths.

This is in contrast to his deputy Paul Kelly, who estimated on March 16 that Australia might have 50,000-150,000 deaths, depending on the percentage of Australians infected.

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