62/106 deaths from COVID in Australia have been in nursing homes[1][2].
The point isn't that Australia hasn't done well (it has!). The point is that even in the best possible circumstances it still proved impossible to keep nursing home patients safe.
In Sweden the plan was to keep nursing homes isolated too, and it didn't work there either.[3]
Sorry about missing you were down under, I only checked after hitting submit. And thanks for clarifying, I had no idea Sweden moved to isolate nursing homes.
That said, I'm still hesitant to equate the risk level to the elderly from community-wide lockdown measures with isolation policies restricted to nursing homes. I don't have any data to support it, but I can't help but assume that lower community transmission overall correlates with fewer transmission vectors into nursing homes. Supposedly this would turn up in the proportion of those in nursing homes that's suffered coronavirus. In principle I agree with you; the hotel scandals in Vic bear that out, ironically, and sadly. But the difference in magnitude has to count for something, as bad as any toll is.
62/106 deaths from COVID in Australia have been in nursing homes[1][2].
The point isn't that Australia hasn't done well (it has!). The point is that even in the best possible circumstances it still proved impossible to keep nursing home patients safe.
In Sweden the plan was to keep nursing homes isolated too, and it didn't work there either.[3]
[1] https://www.health.gov.au/resources/covid-19-cases-in-aged-c...
[2] https://www.health.gov.au/news/health-alerts/novel-coronavir...
[3] https://www.thelocal.se/20200506/coronavirus-what-went-wrong...