Unlocking Australia: What can benefit-cost analysis tell us?
Thursday, April 16, 2020 - 09:00
in Health & Medicine
Lockdowns work. That's the evidence from many different countries now, including Australia. To be more precise, lockdowns reduce the effective reproductive rate of the virus to the point where it is below 1, meaning that, on average, each infected person passes on the disease to less than one other person.