Tony Abbott: some elderly Covid patients could be left to die naturally
by Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor from on (#57KMT)
Health dictatorships' failing to consider economic costs of crisis, ex-Australian PM says
Tony Abbott, the former Australian prime minister tipped to become a UK trade envoy, has railed against Covid health dictatorships", saying politicians need to balance allowing more elderly Covid patients to die by nature taking its course, with the economic costs of an extreme lockdown.
He said it was costing the Australian government as much as $200,000 (110,000) to give an elderly person an extra year's life, substantially beyond what governments would usually pay for life-saving drugs.
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