{"id":3063,"date":"2021-06-22T13:57:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T12:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/?p=3063"},"modified":"2021-06-30T09:51:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T08:51:38","slug":"herd-immunity-covid-19-response-would-have-cost-western-australia-4-9-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2021\/06\/22\/herd-immunity-covid-19-response-would-have-cost-western-australia-4-9-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Herd immunity&#8217; COVID-19 response would have cost Western Australia $4.9 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/people\/3281\/fraser-rob\">Professor Rob Fraser<\/a> in collaboration with Professor Simon McKirdy and Professor David Cook, Scientists at Murdoch University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.murdoch.edu.au\/research\/hbi\">Harry Butler Institute<\/a> have assessed the <a class=\"textTag\" href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/direct+costs\/\" rel=\"tag\">direct costs<\/a> and benefits associated with both suppression response to COVID-19 and those expected under a herd immunity policy.<\/p>\n<p>The results indicate the state&#8217;s suppression policy delivered the state a $4.9 billion benefit by reducing the number of infections and avoiding overwhelming the hospital system.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2021-06-herd-immunity-covid-response-western.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Rob Fraser in collaboration with Professor Simon McKirdy and Professor David Cook, Scientists at Murdoch University&#8217;s Harry Butler Institute have assessed the direct costs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2021\/06\/22\/herd-immunity-covid-19-response-would-have-cost-western-australia-4-9-billion\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66395,"featured_media":3064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3065,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063\/revisions\/3065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}