Hang up the wings, zero is here to stay.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw-...14-p58iqs.html
Australia’s plan to reopen and move beyond lockdowns this year will be in jeopardy unless NSW drives COVID-19 case numbers close to zero as well as hitting a vaccination target of 70 per cent of the adult population.Experts predict Victoria and other states could return to a COVID-normal situation if vaccination targets were reached and case numbers remained low, but NSW would be shut out by the rest of the country.
If Australia did open up at 70 per cent adult vaccination with daily cases in the hundreds, as they were in NSW on Saturday, modelling from the Doherty Institute suggests 385,000 coronavirus cases and almost 1500 deaths could occur in six months.
To avoid thousands of cases a day, states and territories – including Victoria – would be required to continue using border closures and lockdowns even after hitting 80 per cent vaccination.
They had us for a moment there.