Did the Morrison Government really prevent 40,000 COVID-19 deaths?

Professor Simon Eckermann is a professor of health economics at the University of Wollongong, NSW

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13th April 2022

As an opening gambit to his re-election campaign, Prime Minister Scott Morrison claimed his handling of the pandemic had saved 40,000 lives.

Scott Morrison.

This figure compares Australia over 2020 and 2021 with an average derived across higher-risk

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