There is no evidence for this claim: Vaccine surge delivers freedom for five million people.
The accelerated road map in Melbourne follows new Burnet Institute modelling predicting almost 2000 fewer hospitalisations when Victoria’s Covid-19 infections peak than it forecast less than a month ago. It also forecasts almost 1000 fewer deaths between now and the end of the year.
The institute has pointed to increasing vaccination rates to explain the disparity, emphasising that it bases its modelling on actual data, rather than predictions of the impact of vaccination rates.