Published 2 years ago

Melbourne ground zero for lockdown harms, says health expert

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The Great Barrington Declaration, an open letter published in October 2020 and signed by more than 900,000 people, questioned the wisdom of population-wide measures to reduce the spread of the virus. Bhattacharya conceded this argument was difficult to prosecute in Australia, one of the few places in the world where, for a time, the virus was eliminated after the initial wave of infections. He said Australia, particularly Victoria, was a victim of this success, as it made it politically untenable for governments to adopt a different approach.

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Melbourne ground zero for lockdown harms, says health expert

Lockdown opponent Dr Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford University health policy expert, says policymakers must do more to mitigate the likely long-term effects of Melbourne’s pandemic experience.

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