Cases are high and winter is coming. We need to stop ignoring COVID

By Nancy Baxter, Professor and Head of Melbourne School of Population & Global Health, The University of Melbourne
Nicholas Talley, Distinguished Laureate Professor of Medicine University of Newcastle, University of Newcastle

In a poll conducted by the Guardian in August of 2021 about the number of deaths Australians would be willing to accept as restrictions eased, only 3% of respondents felt that 5,000 or more COVID-related deaths per year would be acceptable.

Sadly we have surpassed that milestone in the first…

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