Here's who decides cause of death, how death certificates work – and whether a person died with or of COVID
- Written by: Kathy Eagar, Adjunct professor in the School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Sydney
ShutterstockCOVID was Australia’s third leading cause of death (after heart disease and dementia) in 2022. In a bad flu year we have about 1,200 influenza deaths. We had more than 1,500 COVID deaths in just the first month of 2023. We need to take COVID seriously. It is not like a cold or the flu. It is an exceptional disease.
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