The maths and ethics of minimising COVID-19 deaths in NZ

Monday, March 23rd, 2020 | tedla55p | 12 Comments

Prof Tony Blakely, Prof Michael Baker, and Prof Nick Wilson

The NZ Government must do more to clearly articulate its COVID-19 strategy: eradication or ‘flattening the curve’ mitigation. But to do so means understanding the maths and ethics of both these strategies. In this blog we adapt our work for Australia (just published in this blog) to the NZ setting.

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