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Of Viruses And Vaccines - Peter Doherty

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Effects of the Australian Virus on the Community

The government's modeling at the beginning of the outbreak was quite pessimistic. Today in mid June, there are a little over 100, 19 deaths in Australia. So what happened? Were we lucky? Were the epidemiological models wrong? Do they have bad assumptions? No. We just didn't get that exposure early. If it had gone another three weeks or four weeks without really reacting fairly vigorous, we would be in the same boat.

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