Why the ship has sailed on working-from-home this winter

A leading epidemiologist says more could have been done to limit Victoria’s brutal winter of illness.

COVID has been rife, along with several other viral infections.

Associate Professor James Trauer, Head of the Epidemiological Modelling Unit at Monash University and a respiratory physician at The Alfred, told Neil Mitchell it was too late to encourage people to work from home.

“It was probably the sort of advice we should have been giving a month or so ago,” he said.

“We are probably past the peak of transmission in Victoria now, that’s my reading of it. ”

He said more also could have been done to increase vaccination levels of at-risk Victorians, as well as anti-viral awareness.

“There hasn’t been enough awareness of their availability,” he said.

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