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Berejiklian readies her state for ICU wards crowded with COVID-19

Modelling by the Burnet Institute shows the pandemic will be at its worst just after pubs, clubs and restaurants are reopened.

Aaron Patrick

The official forecast of the long-awaited and possibly overwhelming surge of COVID-19 patients heading for NSW’s hospitals is not the modelling Premier Gladys Berejiklian claims it to be.

On Monday, the NSW Health Department released a six-page PowerPoint presentation based on research by the Melbourne-based Burnet Institute.

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Aaron Patrick was a senior correspondent at The Australian Financial Review.

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