COVID-19 continues to pose a public health emergency and a threat to economic stability. Prospective implications on health services and quality of life remain uncertain given the propensity for persisting illness and 'long COVID'.Pandemic control fundamentally relies on suppression and mitigation principles.2 Suppression, which aims to reduce the reproduction number (and therefore case numbers), focuses on reducing virus transmission to reverse epidemic growth. Such measures, which include social distancing and lockdowns, provide short-term disease control, maintained until mitigation strategies can be applied. Prolonging this presents increasingly greater consequences for mental and physical wellbeing alongside economic damage and public demoralisation the longer the strategy is employed.1'2 Mitigation strategies use vaccines or drugs to contain disease, aiming to minimise the health impact as opposed to interrupting transmission completely. ^g>COVID-19, vaccine, public health
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