The responses to Covid-19 by rich countries across the world include some strange and inexplicable events. In the face of a new infectious disease, governments should seek to minimise infections, find treatments for infections that do occur and increase the broader population’s resistance to infection. But the Australian government’s over-reliance on lockdown measures, and the pursuit of vaccines as the sole medical treatment for Covid-19, fails to achieve these three objectives.
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Dr Douglas Mitchell is a retired medical research scientist. He has a PhD in chemistry from the University of London and worked at the New York State Department of Health. From 2002 to 2005 he was the Chancellor of Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne.
Dr Jake Ames is a practising pathologist. He has treated thousands of patients with viral diseases such as the common cold, polio, Ebola, and corona viruses
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