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Covid notes

6 February 2021

9:00 AM

6 February 2021

9:00 AM

Beyond the quarantine fiasco

While the mismanagement of the hotel quarantine in Melbourne has been in the news, a more basic point has been missed: that a quarantine is not appropriate for SARS-CoV-2.

Before President Xi Jinping of China invented lockdowns and quarantines, such measures had been carefully considered and rejected by the science.

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