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Lockdowns: an alibi for government to shun scrutiny of neglect of public health preparedness

3 September 2021

4:00 AM

3 September 2021

4:00 AM

The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ monthly update on mortality has the eye-catching statistic that in every single week from 1 November 2020 to 31 May 2021, more Australians died than the average in the 2015–19 five-year period (Figure 1). To the end of August, 97 people died with Covid in 2021.

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