About 300 to 350 Australians on average are dying each week from COVID-19 - enough to fill a large passenger jet. 7NEWS
It has three key mutations in its spike protein that make it both better at infecting our cells and more adept at slipping past our immune defences.
The result is that we’re getting sick in droves. As Australians have switched to more rapid at-home tests, official case counts reflect just a fraction of the true disease burden.That puts us in the range of cases reported during the first Omicron wave, in January. Remember when it seemed like everyone everywhere got sick at the same time? That’s the situation in Australia again.
Although vaccination reduces the risk of getting long COVID, a certain percentage of people have lasting symptoms after a breakthrough infection. Several of the mutations in BA.2.75 are in a region of the spike protein known to be an important place for antibodies to bind to stop the virus, Austrian Academy of Sciences scientist Ulrich Elling said. Elling monitors coronavirus variants in Austria.
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