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Further to the idea that severe travel restrictions will cause devastation. We have the luxury of being an island nation. We don't have to think the same as land-locked ones. We have other options. Mortality will be highest once ICU facilities are stretched and unavailable.

"Professor Raina MacIntyre, head of the Biosecurity Program at UNSW's Kirby Institute said Australia could still manage the virus, but widespread transmission could result in 25 to 70 per cent of the population getting infected.

Considering the mortality rate of COVID-19 is 2 to 3 per cent, "if 50 per cent of Australians became infected, that is 492,000 to 738,000 people dying, over 3 million people needing a hospital bed and over 1 million people needing an ICU bed," Professor MacIntyre said.

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