Pitch Engine
The Times Real Estate

.

Vital Signs: batch testing and contact tracing are the two keys to stop the lockdown yo-yo

  • Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW
Vital Signs: batch testing and contact tracing are the two keys to stop the lockdown yo-yo

Back in March and April I (and many other economists) argued for lockdowns to get COVID-19 infections under control and to give health systems time to put in place testing and tracing regimes to contain the virus in the longer term.

This was done pretty effectively everywhere in Australia except for Victoria. But if things go to plan, all states...

Read more: Vital Signs: batch testing and contact tracing are the two keys to stop the lockdown yo-yo

More Articles ...

  1. Relax, losing access to China won't make us the 'poor white trash of Asia'
  2. With their conservative promises, Labour and National lock in existing unfairness in New Zealand's tax system
  3. Clive Palmer versus (Western) Australia. He could survive a High Court loss if his company is found to be “foreign”
  4. China's leaders are strong and emboldened. It's wrong to see them as weak and insecure
  5. Now we'll need $100-$120 billion. Why the budget has to spend big to avoid scarring
  6. The modelling behind Melbourne's extended city-wide lockdown is problematic
  7. Tracking Victoria's job losses: there's no road to recovery without containing COVID-19
  8. Morrison is right. All governments will need to spend more to get us out of the crisis
  9. Vital Signs: How do you fight a recession without precedent?
  10. Have we just stumbled on the biggest productivity increase of the century?
  11. Six graphs that explain Australia's recession
  12. When it comes to economic reform, the old days really were better. We checked
  13. Is ASIC more concerned about relationships with boards than enforcing the law?
  14. 4 things governments can do to help small business
  15. Recovering water for the environment in the Murray-Darling: farm upgrades increase water prices more than buybacks
  16. Australia's top economists oppose the next increases in compulsory super: new poll
  17. Sexual harassment at work isn't just discrimination. It needs to be treated as a health and safety issue
  18. Vital Signs: No, we won't change the corporate world with divestment and boycotts
  19. Trouble at the mall as landlords and tenants ponder mutually assured destruction
  20. Social licence: the idea AMP should embrace now David Murray has left the building
  21. AMP doesn’t just have a women problem. It has an everyone problem
  22. Algorithms workers can't see are increasingly pulling the management strings
  23. With management resistance overcome, working from home may be here to stay
  24. Ah shucks, how bushfires can harm and even kill our delicious oysters
  25. $37.7 million is a new Australian record. Why our corporate chiefs are paid so well
  26. Vital Signs: the Reserve Bank has done as much as it can. Now it's up to the government
  27. It's hard to tell why China is targeting Australian wine. There are two possibilities
  28. More urban sprawl while jobs cluster: working from home will reshape the nation
  29. When houses earn more than jobs: how we lost control of Australian house prices and how to get it back
  30. Workplace transmissions: a predictable result of the class divide in worker rights
  31. Last to know: the European Union knows more about our trade talks than we do
  32. For some companies, JobKeeper has become DividendKeeper. They are paying out, even though the future looks awful
  33. Vital Signs: this university funding crisis was always coming – COVID-19 just accelerated it
  34. We need super, but we're taxing it the wrong way round
  35. Timing the share market is hard – just ask your super fund
  36. Insider trading has become more subtle
  37. Small businesses are being starved of funds: here's how to make their loans cheaper
  38. The S P 500 nears its all-time high. Here's why stock markets are defying economic reality
  39. Reforming 'dad leave' is a baby step towards greater gender equality
  40. No snapback: Reserve Bank no longer confident of quick bounce out of recession
  41. Shorter meetings but longer days: how COVID-19 has changed the way we work
  42. Early access to super doesn’t justify higher compulsory contributions
  43. Warning: what COVID is doing to commercial property it is about to do to super funds
  44. Cutbacks may keep Virgin Australia alive for now, but its long-term prospects are bleak
  45. Sweden eschewed lockdowns. It's too early to be certain it was wrong
  46. What Victoria's abattoir rules mean for the supply and price of meat
  47. Our states are crying poor. They wouldn't if they charged for rezoning like the ACT
  48. Australia won't recover unless Victoria does too. The federal government must step up
  49. Victoria's child-care shutdown is a hard blow for working mothers
  50. Creative destruction: the COVID-19 economic crisis is accelerating the demise of fossil fuels