Victoria down to 1.8% increase per day!

Victoria (1.8%) & NSW (3.5%) continue to systematically head in the right direction, in terms of daily % case increase. 1.8% increase per day is a now a huge doubling time of 40 days. Fantastic! And we STILL haven't seen the effects of the new 2-person rule, stronger enforcement and presumably increased testing and therefore …

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Victoria down to 5% daily case increase. And why % increases are the key metric.

Victoria and the rest of Australia are essentially only a few steps away from full lockdown mode and the earlier restrictions are bearing fruit: we're down to 5% daily increase! And NSW is in the same league with 7.4%. This should enable us to effectively locally eradicate COVID-19 soon especially given the fact we can't …

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People power can eradicate Victorian COVID19

Despite Prof Tony Blakely’s (debatable) claim that we can no longer eradicate COVID19 in Australia, I believe - based on my 24 months in pandemic planning simulations - WE CAN, simply by isolating & obeying the federal & state regulations on social distancing EVEN MORE than requested. Do you want years of 100s of deaths …

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Best viz of effects of social distancing in Victoria & NSW

The effects of social distancing are most systematic in Victoria where the 20-30% daily increase has dropped every day for four days and is now down to 11.6%. NSW is showing good signs too. It will take another week to see the real affects of so-called Stage II restrictions including the closing of almost all …

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