Cases are high and winter is coming. We need to stop ignoring COVID
- Written by Nancy Baxter, Professor and Head of Melbourne School of Population & Global Health, The University of Melbourne
In a poll conducted by the Guardian in August of 2021 about the number of deaths Australians would be willing to accept as restrictions eased, only 3% of respondents felt that 5,000 or more COVID-related deaths per year would be acceptable.
Sadly we have surpassed that milestone in the first four months of this year alone.
Each day, an average of...