We are dying from COVID-19, not living with it
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The silence is deafening. Although 2022 has been by far the worst year for Australia, when it comes to COVID-19 in terms of public discourse, it’s as if the virus doesn’t exist.
Australia currently has the highest known COVID-19 case rate in the world, at 1631 cases per million people a day.1