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Introducing OzSAGE, a source of practical expert advice for how to reopen Australia from COVID safely

  • Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW
Introducing OzSAGE, a source of practical expert advice for how to reopen Australia from COVID safely superjoseph/Shutterstock

Australia is in the middle of its worst COVID-19 outbreak. Our hospital system is under strain. Vulnerable communities are being hit hard. And more than half the nation is locked down.

There is an understandable desire to know when we can reopen. But there is also an even more important need to know how we can reopen.

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