Reopening with thousands of cases a day

What's That Rash?

Oct 20, 2021•11 min

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Episode description

Greater Melbourne will finally come out of lockdown a minute before the strike of midnight tonight, which will be a huge relief to millions of people.

But the city comes out of lockdown with high daily caseloads - with the rolling five day average being around 1850.

When NSW came out of lockdown, its daily caseload was much lower - and has remained low and is showing no signs of increasing again.

So can we expect cases to fall in Melbourne? Rise? Level off? And does reopening with a large caseload in a highly vaccinated population even matter?

Also on today's show:

* Australia hits 70 per cent double-dosed

* Norman wants to see some quokkas

* What is the difference going to be for Victoria opening up with so many more cases than NSW?

* Can you get COVID-19 three times?

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