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How Australia’s Swift Bid to Crush Covid Saved Lives
For the first year of the pandemic, the country’s ferocious effort to prevent the pathogen’s spread yielded unmatched success. But that victory wouldn’t last.
Storylines: How Australia’s Swift Bid to Crush Covid Saved Lives
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When the world was confronted with the coronavirus in early 2020, Australia responded hard and fast with what would be—at first—one of the most successful efforts to combat the pandemic.
On this episode of Storylines, we recount how Australia leveraged its geography and strict travel rules to quickly become an example for holding Covid-19 at bay. But a lack of diligence on the vaccine front coupled with the arrival of the delta variant would upend this Covid-zero strategy.