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  • Protecting New Zealand children from the developing Omicron outbreak

    … Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) is likely to soon be experiencing widespread community transmission caused by … harms. Māori leadership at policy and community level will be needed to ensure that children will be safe in all settings during an Omicron outbreak. Lessons …
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  • Is Euthanasia a health priority for New Zealand at present?

    … This blog discusses what will be needed to operationalise the End of Life Choice Act in the … on health system reform. Arguably more suffering would be relieved if the resource required to implement a system … palliative care funding. At the next election voters will be asked to answer the referendum question “Do you support …
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  • Reducing the risk of Covid-19 transmission through the use of air purifiers

    … such transmission, the particles that carry the virus can be diluted by bringing in as much outdoor air as possible. … When good ventilation is not possible, air purifiers can be used as an additional preventative measure to reduce the … Ventilation and purification of indoor air needs to be used alongside public health measures, such as …
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  • Fast-track Bill puts NZ on wrong track, threatening public health

    … protections currently in place. Projects that will be prioritised for fast-tracking, including mining and major … significant. 8 Projects approved under the Bill would not be subject to existing environmental legislation, including … Under the Bill, projects consented by Ministers would be referred to an expert panel that could recommend …
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  • Might a ‘Coasean’ social contract mitigate overall societal harm from COVID-19?

    … this blog, we outline how a win-win social contract could be forged to address the major dimensions of response to the … could take a range of forms, but one approach could be for a government to offer a period of extra payments to … Those most at risk of hospitalisation and death should be protected, whilst others should be allowed to return to …
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  • More than 147km – the transformative potential of the Wellington bike network plan

    … central city and three quarters of people in the city will be within 5 minutes ride of the network.  Following the … (e.g., planter boxes) in the next 3 years, to be gradually hard engineered into the fabric of the city over … start cycling soon instead of waiting for everything to be completed and that aspects that don’t work well are …
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  • The need for a robust scientific definition for the elimination of COVID-19 from New Zealand

    … guide our national COVID-19 response. The definition must be objectively verifiable, with appropriate levels of testing … and surveillance systems in place. It should ideally be refined in collaboration with Australian health … this has not been fully described [5]. We appear to be making good progress, with the number of new cases in …
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  • The urgent need for a Covid-19 Action Plan for Schools in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … parents that transmission in school settings would be low. At the start of term, Covid-19 in children had been … cases aged 10-19 years, but these figures are likely to be substantially underestimated. Media reports described high … at risk of long Covid symptoms. 2 Teachers are reported to be leaving the profession , citing concern about the lack of …
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  • Putin and the Bomb: Why New Zealand national risk assessments should include planning for the potential impacts of nuclear winter

    … of nuclear war and what various models estimate to be the potential global climate impacts (eg, of nuclear … nuclear weapons, under what circumstances, and what would be the impact of such aggression? This question is important … high alert in the context of the Ukraine invasion to be an ‘initiating event’, then the annualised probability of …
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  • Shifting all isolation/quarantine facilities to a single air force base: The need for a critical analysis

    … base at Ōhakea are considered. The main advantage would be a reduction in the risk of border control failures, which … health and economic impacts. The main disadvantage would be reduced numbers of returnees that could be allowed back into NZ, with these returnees assisting with …
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