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Control of Covid-19 outbreaks in both China and Western Australia show that a place does not have to be geographically isolated to serve as a successful pandemic refuge, according to a new study looking at public health risk management. Researchers from the United States and Australia said that while Covid-19 was not as extreme as other global catastrophe scenarios for which refuges were commonly proposed, countries considering establishing a refuge for future infectious disease outbreaks should customise their policies to the specific pathogen and define their “refuge endgame” – or how they plan to emerge from refuge status. Previous research...
