
Mark Butler on a better healthcare system for Australians
Australian Politics
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COVID in Aged Care
I'm sure there are a lot of people in the community still very anxious about catching COVID and think that basically governments have gone from lock everything down to let a rip all around the place. So have you dropped the ball? No, I don't think we have dropped the ball. We've actually got much better at deploying antiviral treatments and very quick testing for people in aged care with symptoms as quickly as possible. This is still a learning exercise. This pandemic has the virus changes, as the vaccines change, as our treatments change, and as we learn about good public health response. Even if we did that, though, we're not going to bring that death rate down to
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