Professor Nick Wilson

Director, Burden of Disease Epidemiology, Equity and Cost-Effectiveness Programme, University of Otago

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

Health & Medicine

The maths and ethics of minimising COVID-19 deaths

The Australian Government must clarify its COVID-19 strategy, but to do so means understanding the maths and ethics of either ‘flattening the curve’ or an eradication endgame

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