COVID is killing thousands of Australians who would have otherwise lived, likely to be 20-30,000 by year's end. This fig shows that, after saving lives in 2020 (another story), once this line crossed the zero in late 2021, we were in ‘excess’ territory. 1/ 
Only shown to June 26, this ABS report has more recent data showing that XS deaths continue unabated abs.gov.au/statistics/hea…
We had 2,500 XS deaths in July alone. 2/
We had 2,500 XS deaths in July alone. 2/
Around half of these XS deaths are formally assigned as due to COVID. Singapore data tells us that the remainder are also driven by COVID in 3 months bf death. There are no XS deaths in people who have not had COVID in the last 90 days.
moh.gov.sg/resources-stat… . 3/
moh.gov.sg/resources-stat… . 3/
We don’t have that information for Oz but likely to be similar. See also the Actuaries for a more curated view on XS deaths. But the scale & message are almost the same, 13-17% more Australians are dying this year than in previous non-COVID years. 4/
COVID continues to kill people at an extraordinary rate, even now in our lowest point we are losing 10-20 people each day who would otherwise not have died. By way of comparison we have lost 308 people this year to influenza, yet COVID deaths are over 13,000. 5/
These are preventable deaths. 2022 tells us we cannot ‘ring-fence’ the most vulnerable, nowhere near well enough anyway. It is all our responsibility to reduce transmission & save lives. Not to mention prevent acute & chronic disease in large swathes of our community. 6/
This is not to create fear. But to promote #VaccinesPLUS action. I am on a train as I write this with prob 100 others. I'm the only one with a mask despite it being strongly recommended. Why would they wear one? I suspect most have no idea of the ongoing impact of COVID. 7/end
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