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5000 deaths this year and counting What's That Rash?

    • Medicine

While most of the Australian population is vaccinated against COVID-19, going by the amount of people who have died in 2022, this is by far the worst year of the pandemic.

More than 5000 people have died so far this year, and another 30 or 40 are continuing to die on average each day at the moment.

So on this week’s Coronacast, why have we stopped paying attention to deaths and can we do anything to reduce them?

Also on today’s show:

* Paxlovid is now part of the PBS. So what is the drug again? Who should take it? When? And why?

While most of the Australian population is vaccinated against COVID-19, going by the amount of people who have died in 2022, this is by far the worst year of the pandemic.

More than 5000 people have died so far this year, and another 30 or 40 are continuing to die on average each day at the moment.

So on this week’s Coronacast, why have we stopped paying attention to deaths and can we do anything to reduce them?

Also on today’s show:

* Paxlovid is now part of the PBS. So what is the drug again? Who should take it? When? And why?

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