Cove Zero in the Pandemic?

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Western australia managed to remain cove zero for almost two years of the pandemic. Other places around the wrld that have sort of managed this strategy are mainland china, tiwan and macaw a. Hong kong has a raging outbreak going on at the moment with about 14 thousand cases yesterday from pc and another 14 thousand from rapid antigen tests. They don't have a particularly high vaccination rate compared to many countries around the world. And they've also got quite high numbers of deaths.

A handful of states around the world have pursued 'COVID zero' strategies. Through a combination of intensive lockdowns, travel restrictions and comprehensive test and trace systems, regions like Tonga, New Zealand, Taiwan, mainland China and Western Australia managed to keep the virus at bay. But now many of these countries are facing new outbreaks on a scale they have not yet seen, and it is being driven in part by vaccine hesitancy. In this episode of Coronapod we discuss how a successful public health campaign can breed new problems when it comes to public perception of risk, and ask how vaccine complacency might be avoided in the future.

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