Think again if you believe that eliminating Covid isolation periods would get us back to work and through the pandemic.
Isolation, a crucial pillar of COVID management, flattens the COVID curve by preventing contagious persons from infecting others.
COVID is an uncommon illness that was at its deadliest this year, inflicting more deaths in Australia than at any other period between June and August 2022.
So far this year, there have been 288 deaths from influenza, compared to almost 12,000 deaths from COVID.
In Australia, the number of COVID deaths in the first nine months of 2022 is more than 10 times the annual national road toll of slightly over 1,000.
Isolation, a crucial pillar of COVID management, flattens the COVID curve by preventing contagious persons from infecting others.
During the epidemic, workforce shortages were felt in every industry.
Shortages of health staff have necessitated the importation of employees from other countries, with fatal consequences for patients in some circumstances.