Posts tagged "vaccination targets"

Delta’s fast incubation period and high transmissibility has killed the dream of COVID-zero and herd immunity, but the larger battle of when Australia will start ‘living with COVID’ continues to rage.

The attitude of almost every Australian politician in maintaining a devotion to COVID-zero is a classic example of a failure to understand the principle of sunk costs.

The latest survey data collected by the Melbourne Institute shows vaccine hesitancy had fallen to 21.5% of the adult population at the end of July 2021, compared with 33% at the end of May 2021.