National cabinet must make the “challenging decision” on how many COVID-19 deaths they’re willing to accept in order for Australia to reopen, Queensland’s deputy premier says. Deputy Premier Steven Miles says vaccination rates aren’t the only variable the prime minister and state and territory leaders need to consider before reopening under the national plan. He says the Doherty Institute has only modelled the number of cases, hospitalisations, ICU cases and deaths that will happen at varying levels of vaccination coverage and testing, tracing, isolation and quarantine measures. The deputy premier says the national cabinet is yet to come to an agreement on the number of deaths leaders are willing to accept in order to ease restrictions and soften state border controls. “Well, that’s effectively the decision that needs to be made here,” Mr Miles told ABC radio on Friday. “The modelling calculates how many people die under each scenario, and …