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WHY WE ARE NOT DYING LIKE ITALY

 Why aren’t Australians dying from the coronavirus like the Italians are? The question is important because it was Italy that really made our politicians panic.They saw hundreds of Italians dying each day, and even this week ABC health presenter Norman Swan warned, “We are going to be where Italy was.” Wrong. 

 Why aren’t Australians dying from the coronavirus like the Italians are? The question is important because it was Italy that really made our politicians panic. 

They saw hundreds of Italians dying each day, and even this week ABC health presenter Norman Swan warned, “We are going to be where Italy was.”

Wrong.

In fact,  28 days since our first death, and Australia’s death toll is just 21. But in the 28 days since Italy’s first death more than 1800 died.

 (Read the full story here.)

Andrew Bolt
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