COVID-19 roadmap to recovery - Sam Lovick Consulting Premier Andrews announced his COVID-19 roadmap to recovery. It was not convincing, more of a pathway to misery. Writing with Dr Brian McNamee AO (in his personal capacity), we urge the Premier to broaden is pool of advice and move faster to relax social distancing constraints in Victoria.

Published in the Australian Financial Review, Dr Brian McNamee AO (writing in his personal capacity) and Sam Lovick question whether Premier Andrews’ roadmap to recovery is the right path. We conclude that Daniel Andrews should move to reduce lock down measures in regional Victoria immediately and should move to do so more quickly in Melbourne. The costs of lockdown, not just economic costs but also unfortunate health costs such as increased cancer deaths, dictate that we should transition from an elimination strategy to a management strategy. To do so, Victoria must ensure that it has state of the art testing and track and trace.