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    • Dr Laxman Bablani

    Research Fellow, Epidemiology And Econometrics, Melbourne School Of Population And Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne

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    Health & Medicine

    The strength of Sydney’s lockdown is crucial over the next 100 days

    Speeding up the vaccine rollout in Sydney and New South Wales helps with the Delta outbreak, but lockdowns may matter more in the short term

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    Health & Medicine

    We need to talk about elimination vs suppression in Australia again

    New epidemiological and economic modelling finds that elimination is better than a suppression strategy for COVID-19

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    Health & Medicine

    How long till Sydney gets out of lockdown?

    New COVID-19 modelling finds NSW’s hard decision to go into hard lockdown gives the State more certainty about how long they’ll be stuck in there

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    Health & Medicine

    Food Health Star labels are driving healthier products

    Food labels are improving the nutrition of packaged products in Australia and New Zealand, but they must be compulsory to make a bigger difference

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    Health & Medicine

    Flattening the curve to help Australia’s hospitals prepare

    Mathematical and epidemiological modelling helps us understand whether Australia is flattening the COVID-19 curve and allows us to work backwards from a manageable health services demand – keeping it ‘just flat enough’

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