Covid control and the economy

There’s been a lot of talk over the last several months over how best to both protect people from coronavirus and protect the economy, and economist Quentin Grafton from Australian National University has been crunching the numbers. Back in September, he combined epidemiological models of how the virus spreads, with models of the Australian economy, and found results that lockdown-sceptics might consider surprising, as he told Eva Higginbotham recently...