When COVID hit, there were a whole lot of predictions about how many people would die.
Not just of the virus itself, but the knock on effects from reduced care and other diseases.
One of the latest attempts at working out the number of excess deaths is recently published and has taken a wide view of the population looking for trends.
And while the group found that excess deaths from undiagnosed COVID is likely low in Australia, increased deaths from COVID-caused complications is beginning to show up.
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