We are dying from COVID-19, not living with it
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
Our mortality rate from the virus also remains stubbornly high, with an average of 38 deaths a day, or 1.5 deaths per million people a day.1
If the current death rate persists, Australia will finish the year with 14,000-15,000 COVID-19 deaths, on track to make it the second leading cause of death in the country behind ischaemic heart disease.2
