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Ghettos of crime, drugs and vice? Full of people bludging off the state? That’s typical of the unfair stigma attached to public housing, and it distracts us from more fundamental issues.
What we understand about how COVID-19 spreads should be the basis for infection control procedures during any lockdown of a residential tower.
Public housing towers in Flemington and North Melbourne have been placed under ‘hard lockdown’, with 3,000 residents confined to home for at least five days, after 23 COVID-19 cases in 12 homes.
Buildings with lots of occupants such as tower blocks and hospitals could be a hidden risk in the battle against COVID-19.
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Macquarie University Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University
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Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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Professor of Leadership and Management, Edge Hill University
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Associate Professor, Director Cabrini Monash University Department of Nursing Research, Monash University
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Director, Institute for Sustainable Building Design, Heriot-Watt University
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Professor, Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University
