Hundreds of lives could be saved and tens of thousands of COVID-19 infections avoided if more people wore masks indoors and took other measures to reduce the spread of the virus. | aishamae COVID19 COVID19Vic
Modelling from the Burnet Institute estimates that hundreds of Victorian lives could be saved if COVID-19 transmission is reduced.
Burnet Institute epidemiologist Professor Margaret Hellard says more can be done to prevent COVID-19 infections. The head of Monash University’s epidemiological modelling unit, Associate Professor James Trauer, said: “My view is that if we slow transmission now, we reduce the daily number of deaths that occur. But we are largely deferring those deaths because most of those people will get exposed in the next couple of years.
, of which Trauer was a lead author, estimated face coverings reduced the spread of COVID-19 during Victoria’s second wave by about 40 per cent. Trauer said the figure was so high because masks were mandatory in Melbourne outside the home in late July 2020.released last month by researchers from the University of Bristol and University of Oxford estimated “population mask wearing” in public reduced COVID-19 transmission by 19 per cent.
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