The spread of the coronavirus is slowing to a crawl: “As at 6:30am on 31 March 2020, there have been 4,359 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Australia. There have been 266 new cases since 6:30am yesterday.” That is a record low growth rate of just 6.6 per cent, compared to our high of 35 per cent.
A Stanford University study suggests the real death rate from the coronavirus may be no worse than the flu. I talk to Professor Jay Bhattacharya. UPDATE: More reason to question the claimed death rate: “Scientists [said] possibly two thirds of deaths… have been from people who would have died of their underlying conditions.”
The virus spread has slowed fast. Victoria recorded its first drop in people sick now. Doubts grow about the virus’s lethality. Meanwhile, the economic devastation will destroy families and cripple our future. Now to start a switch: to quarantining the sick, protecting the old and letting the rest go back to work. My editorial from The Bolt Report.
Warning! This coronavirus is making some on the Left sick with hatred of Donald Trump. An ABC host hopes the virus infects Donald Trump, while celebrities accuse Trump of killing people with fish cleaner. I talk to Daisy Cousens. Watch.
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Don’t Australians realise this spending must all be repaid, with interest? “Businesses are expected to be paid a wage subsidy of up to $1,500 per employee… Scott Morrison [has] an unprecedented $66bn rescue package — including … giving small businesses new subsidies… Tenants will be saved from evictions.” Our future is being crippled.
This morning’s figures show the rate of spread of the coronavirus has dropped even more – now to just 7 per cent. It used to be between 25 and 35 per cent until early last week. Deaths are just 17, after a woman in her 80s died in Tasmania. The youngest of the dead was 68, and had serious underlying health issues.
The latest figures show the coronavirus has stopped spreading as fast as it did for the first few weeks. We had daily rates of increase of between 25 and 35 per cent. In the last four days of last week it slowed to between 13 and 15 per cent. In the last 24 hours, even better: 9.1 per cent. UPDATE: It’s slowing fast in Italy, too.
Things have changed with this coronavirus panic. Now Australians can be back at work within two weeks.If we keep our blunderbuss approach of closing thousands of business and telling all Australians to stay home, the suffering will be enormous. Here are five reasons why we can now stop forcing millions of fit and young Australians to stay at home.
How dangerously quick we were to panic about the coronavirus, particularly after watching Italy. Sure, that was understandable … at first. Italy recorded its first death from the virus on February 21. Just 21 days later, it had 1266 deaths. But nothing like that was happening here. Yet we had terrifying claims of tens of thousands of deaths.
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