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I will just speak for Australia... but Elimination was not the initial goal. It was just to ensure the hospitals could cope. It is true that Australia never e
by gg82 6y ago
I will just speak for Australia... but Elimination was not the initial goal. It was just to ensure the hospitals could cope. It is true that Australia never entertained the idea of herd-immunity. I think some of the state governments later moved towards an elimination idea when it appeared possible.
I think that is not likely going to be possible now, since people were beginning not to accept the lock down like they had in the past. When you have a small number of cases in the hundreds for the whole of Australia, people had already started to change their behavior even before lock down restrictions had began to be lifted.
- nl 6y agoI can confirm this is accurate. No Australian government has made any kind of indication that elimination is a goal, and nor was herd immunity a goal. The goal was time to prepare the country, and to minimise the death toll. As it happens, it has been functionally eliminated in SA/NT/WA with no new cases in May and zero active cases. But the expectation is that new cases will arise as travel restrictions ease but contact tracing will be sufficient to control them.