More people dying from COVID than stroke, lung cancer | marywardy
More people are expected to die from COVID-19 than cardiovascular disease or lung cancer this year, as high rates of infection, including among older Australians, result in a significant death toll from the current wave.
The working group found deaths from the virus were expected to total 7100 by the end of July, a figure higher than cardiovascular disease and lung cancer . “What seems to be driving the high number of deaths is just the high number of [COVID] cases in the population,” said Jennifer Lang, the working group’s convenor.Analysts tallied COVID-19 deaths reported by state and territory health departments this year, applying a model to deduct the proportion of deaths likely to have died with – as opposed to from – the virus.
“The level of case reporting is also not as high as it used to be, so the level of known cases relative to the number of deaths we see may not necessarily match up,” Lang said.warned Australia would experience excess annual mortality, or more overall deaths from all causes than expected, in 2022David Muscatello, an associate professor in infectious diseases epidemiology at the University of NSW, agreed this was a foregone conclusion, mostly due to high COVID-19 deaths.
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