Posts tagged "adam schwab covid-19"

Delta’s fast incubation period and high transmissibility has killed the dream of COVID-zero and herd immunity, but the larger battle of when Australia will start ‘living with COVID’ continues to rage.

The attitude of almost every Australian politician in maintaining a devotion to COVID-zero is a classic example of a failure to understand the principle of sunk costs.

A closer look at the stats reveals that, with vaccinations continuing as they are, COVID-19 deaths per day could be far fewer than those of the flu or diabetes by December.