Everyone needs to cross Australia off their vacation list for 10 years.
this week we got the admission from the Chief Medical Officer in Victoria - “climate” zealot Brett Sutton - that he didn’t recommend Victoria’s curfew.
now we have this:
10 Sept: Warwick Daily News Australia: Revealed: Australia wrongly sent into lockdown after error
by Matthew Benns, Daily Telegraph
Coronavirus modelling used by the Federal Government to send Australia into financially crippling lockdown used the wrong figures and dramatically over-estimated how many people could need intensive care.
When the modelling was released at the start of the pandemic by the Melbourne-based Peter Doherty Institute, it horrified health officials.
“This is a horrendous scenario,” chief medical officer Brendan Murphy said at the time. “A daily demand for new intensive care beds of 35,000 plus.”
But The Daily Telegraph can reveal the modelling that Prof Murphy said was “highly technical” and could only be understood by people with “scientific brains” was wrong.
The modelling accidentally transposed the figures for the number of people who would be hospitalised during COVID-19 if no measures were taken for the number of people who would be admitted into intensive care units.
The error made the effect of the pandemic appear four times worse than the modelling actually intended, predicting 12,000 people in NSW would go into ICU rather than 3000. And it informed the advice that led to economically crippling lockdowns across the nation.
“I strongly believe we lock down too hard,” James Cook University professor of infectious diseases modelling Emma McBryde said.
Her team in Queensland uncovered the error after they were left “scratching our heads” over why the Melbourne modelling was so much worse than their own.
Once her team had worked out how the error occurred, they contacted the Doherty researchers and received an email back confirming the modelling would be updated.
“That was three months ago and we are still waiting,” Prof McBryde said.
***The ABC quoted the incorrect figures again this week.
“Leaving something inaccurate uncorrected on the public record is pretty close to research misconduct,” Prof McBryde said.
Professor Jodie McVernon, from the Doherty Institute, confirmed the error was noticed in June but said it was confined to two graphs and “the conclusions on the response strategies needed to ensure enough ICU beds were available were still accurate”.
She said they informed the government of the mistake at the time.
https://www.warwickdailynews.com.au/news/revealed-australia-wrongly-sent-into-lockdown-afte/4096321/
***taxpayer-funded ABC Australia idolizes Doherty.