Australia faces a tough decision about how to end the coronavirus epidemic and one “offensive” option is raising concerns.
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison also noted the government’s current economic lifelines, including a $320 billion rescue package to support the unemployment and to keep people in jobs, had a “finite life”. Prof Vally pointed to the example of SARS, another coronavirus that researchers never managed to developed a vaccine for, although this was partly because the disease largely disappeared and so it was no longer needed.“It’s probably to do with the role that the immune response plays in response to SARS and potentially COVID-19.“Time is the issue really, everyone wants a vaccine in record time and it’s not easy to develop vaccines, and it’s not easy to develop vaccines with safety and efficacy.
However, this week Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy noted that the calculations were based on the behaviour of other viruses and it wasn’t clear yet what the exact percentage was.WHAT IF PEOPLE DON’T BECOME IMMUNE TO COVID-19? “It would certainly last a while, but whether that is as short as a year, or longer than that, we don’t know,” he said.
“I do think it’s a pretty serious ethical issue to let people be exposed to it, and not be really sure what the long term effects are going to be … it’s not even clear what the short term effects are.” If the coronavirus continued to be spread overseas, very strict measures would need to be in place in Australia to make sure it was not reintroduced into the country.The Morrison Government has already indicated that any attempt to eliminate the virusGrattan Institute chief executive officer John Daley also described herd immunity as a very risky strategy and believes it may be possible to lift restrictions safely if other measures are brought in.
“Indeed it’s probable that we could increase the amount of economic activity somewhat, and not see an infection rate over one.”
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