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Adrian Esterman, Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Adelaide University

How flu overtook COVID as Australia’s deadliest respiratory virus

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Many Australians have stopped worrying about respiratory viruses. The pandemic has passed and attention has shifted. COVID no longer dominates the headlines, and influenza is often dismissed as a routine winter illness.

But the latest provisional figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) suggest otherwise.

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