Testing rates, Covid and the lockdown effect: what’s driving Australia’s big flu season?
by Josh Nicholas from on (#60GXX)
Datablog: experts say an increase in testing means high cases have not translated into high hospitalisations
Australia is experiencing some of the highest levels of confirmed influenza cases, fever and cough in the last five years, but this hasn't translated to an unprecedented" number of hospitalisations.
Experts say one reason cases increase year-to-year is because testing is becoming more accessible. This is especially so now, after two years of Covid lockdowns and isolation.
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