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Back to Covid - the prime minister Scott Morrison has just appeared on breakfast television rejecting Doherty Modelling which predicted up to 200,000 Covid cases per day under a ‘worst case’ scenario.
Morrison:
The modelling that has been reported is a very unlikely, extreme case scenario that assumes that nobody does anything, nobody gets boosters, there are no changes that take place, no one exercises common sense. We saw similar numbers at the start of the Covid pandemic which were never realised.
The chief medical officer and I just want to assure people that those sorts of numbers are what we are expecting, they...are extreme scenarios.
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