Sky News Political Editor aclennell says many epidemiologists are sceptical of the University of Melbourne modelling that underpins the Victorian government’s COVID-19 response.
Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell says many epidemiologists are sceptical of the University of Melbourne modelling that underpins the Victorian government’s COVID-19 response. Mr Clennell said Victoria could refine its modelling and raise the minimum number of cases required to ease restrictions. “To base these threshold decisions on a generic model is really troubling to me,” Deakin University Epidemiology Professor Catherine Bennett said.
“If we do our contact tracing better than we did three months ago, the contact tracers may be able to hold the case count without it going up again as badly as our model suggests,” Professor Blakely said. Doherty Institute Professor Jodie McVernon said five cases per day was a tough threshold to reach.
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