How Melbourne eradicated Covid-19
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🗓️ 8 December 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:42.0 | Dylan Scott, you report on healthcare at Vox and you live in Maryland, |
| 0:46.0 | but we're going to talk about Australia today, why? |
| 0:50.0 | Sean, I have been trying to live vicariously through some Australians that I know, |
| 0:56.0 | because as of last week, Melbourne, one of the biggest cities in Australia, |
| 1:02.0 | has been COVID-free for a month, for four full weeks. |
| 1:06.0 | There have been zero active cases of COVID-19 in the state of Victoria, |
| 1:11.0 | of which Melbourne is a part. |
| 1:13.0 | And I know from my days of geography that Melbourne is relatively close to New Zealand, |
| 1:19.0 | which also has done really well, but are Australia and New Zealand just uniquely positioned |
| 1:24.0 | because they're so far away from all the COVID catastrophes to just whether the storm better? |
| 1:29.0 | I mean, look, it certainly helps Australia and New Zealand even more so |
| 1:34.0 | that there are islands, in the case of Australia, really, really big island. |
| 1:38.0 | You might even call it a continent. |
| 1:40.0 | And they don't have any land borders to speak of. |
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