COVID-19 is expected to be the third-leading cause of death in Australia in the first seven months of 2022, an analysis by the Actuaries Institute has concluded. covid19 pandemic
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.
About 10,000 deaths were expected to have been recorded from ischaemic heart diseases, also known as coronary heart disease, and dementia, respectively, by the end of last month. Deaths from COVID-19 used to peak three weeks after cases, although University of NSW mathematician and pandemic modeller, associate professor James Wood, said this had been closer to two weeks with the Omicron variant, which has been dominant in Australia throughout 2022.