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Australia's First Nation's response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Interesting short note in The Lancet about how Australia’s First Nations people managed to reverse the usual gap in health outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians by developing and implementing their own COVID management strategies and getting Australian governments to work alongside them rather than forcing them to follow non-Indigenous led strategies.

The result of this First Nations-led response has shown how effective (and extremely cost-effective) giving power and capacity to Indigenous leaders is. This response has avoided major illness and deaths and avoided costly care and anguish. It is nothing short of a triumph

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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31545-2/fulltext