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Behind the Lines

Opening Up the Pool

Public pool with a net bisecting it. One side is people, the other is sharks. A man holding the lever to the net says, 'When 70% have shark-proof suits on, I'm opening up the entire pool'.

Mark David
30 August 2021

Melbourne’s Doherty Institute provided modelling to the National Cabinet on how to adjust to living with COVID-19. Vaccine coverage thresholds became buzzwords but, as Mark David highlights, people remain at risk.

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