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‘Unsurprising’: Covid-19 among leading cause of death in 2022

A leading infectious disease expert has weighed in on the detection of a “highly mutated” Covid variant in Australia, amid a grim new report about virus deaths.

A leading infectious disease expert has hosed down fears about a ‘highly mutated’ Covid variant detected in Australia and stressed “this is the reality of life over the next 10 years.”

Dr Peter Collignon said the detection of the Pirola variant in a lab in Western Australia earlier this month, which some experts have raised alarm bells about, wasn’t a huge concern.

“Unless we are seeing a higher mortality rate, or high hospitalisation rate or no protection from previous infection we shouldn’t get too excited,” he told news.com.au.

“This is the reality of life over the next 10 years. We are going to see this again and again and again. Unless there is something dramatically different, let’s learn to live with it.”

His comments come amid grim new data released this week which revealed Covid-19 is now one of Australia’s leading causes of death.

Heart disease remained the biggest killer followed by dementia.

There were 9859 deaths from Covid-19 last year.

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/unsurprising-covid19-among-leading-cause-of-death-in-2022/news-story/9bfe93e073af5e12134e1330041ebfeb