Domain: No vaccine before Olympics

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Nan and Pop may be fighting for their lives by winter but what really matters is this, from Domain:

In his first interview since the coronavirus outbreak began in December, the Australian team’s medical director, David Hughes, said human-to-human transmission of the flu-like disease in Japan was a “far from ideal” situation.

“What is going on in Japan now is a key issue,” said Dr Hughes, who is also the chief medical officer at the Australian Institute of Sport. “The next couple of weeks is going to be the real test in seeing whether this local transmission can be brought under control.

“It’s a far from ideal situation when we are preparing for an Olympics. All I can say is we certainly would prefer that there wasn’t local transmission occurring in Japan.”

Dr Hughes said any change to current plans for the Olympics would be up to the International Olympic Committee.

“We will not have a vaccine for coronavirus before the Olympics,” he told The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. “We would need to be sure that it is safe to take athletes into Japan.”

Have they replaced all of the journos over there with dog turds?

About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.