AU COVID-19 Outbreak

We have limited time to flatten the curve! #stayhomeaustralia

Critical Daily Updates For Australia


Why do we need self isolation and social distancing?

Our aim is to reduce the rate of daily infections by limiting our individual exposure. This will delay the date that all Intensive Care Units (ICUs) are at capacity (the breaking point), as shown below:

With infection rates decreasing and trending lower we've seen the ICU breaking point pushed out to next year. On top of that, announcements by the government in opening up beds in Private Hospitals and the Victorian Government investing in an additional 4,000 ICU beds, puts the saturation point to July 2021!!

That's great news - we have much more capacity to work with now!



Data shows that if at least 80% of Australians self isolate we will be able to flatten the curve. Without compliance, infection gets out of control.

Source: University of Sydney


COVID-19 Daily Infection rates


Now that the health system breaking point is safer into the distance, we have started to report the daily Infection Rates (IR). Tracking AU's progress against the pandemic, we can see the impact your daily decision to #stayhome makes.

We are making progress every week, but COVID-19 won't be under control until we see cases dropping day on day, ie (IR<0). We still have a bit of work to do.

Overall Infections near you


We are excited to see the infection rates decreasing, but we are also aware that not everyone is getting tested at medical centers.

To better understand overall cases near you, our partner has created a great tool to identify cases near you. It includes both medical diagnosed and self-diagnosed cases.

Check it out on multiplied.me


We know that self-isolating can be hard, so we want to bring awareness about the impact you are having when you #stayhomeaustralia.

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This site is maintained by volunteers* and updated daily based on media reports and verified with data from state and federal health departments. Last updated: 10pm, 3 April 2020 (AEDT). Source: www.covid19data.com.au

Volunteers*

Craig Brokensha is an Oceanographer and Meteorologist, currently working as a Surf Forecaster for Swellnet. He is a legend at analysing and compiling weather data to produce swell/surf forecasts for Australian and international locations. But given the current situation he has applied his skills in forecasting for COVID-19.

Sara Rickards is a Biomedical Scientist and Environmental Engineer. She is the Co-Founder of Futuregiving and Reunion who mostly nerds out on data and positive impact solutions for the world. She is a peer reviewed author in systems thinking, eco-footprinting, sustainability and the future of work.

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Disclaimer: Please feel free to use any of this information. However, please be advised these are only models, models are never perfect, and these systems are complex. Therefore when sharing this information please include the assumptions to keep people alert, but not alarmed.

We will do our best to provide clear information with the daily data we have available.

Note: the current infection rate has been modelled based on the current publicly known COVID-19 cases in Australia - we will continue to update this data daily but would like to acknowledge that rates of infection are likely to be higher because all cases will not be publicly recorded.