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  • What’s the right Covid-19 risk to live with – an Australian perspective

    … of the virus. During Victoria’s second wave of COVID-19 in 2020, our team  created an agent-based model  which calculated the  probability of eliminating COVID-19  from the state, as well as the optimal strategy in … adults. 2) The reproductive rate of the virus in the pre-COVID-19 world with no restrictions of 5.0 and 6.0. 3) The …
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  • Monitoring CO2 indoors for improving ventilation as a Covid-19 control tool

    … transmission of the virus (SARS-CoV-2) that causes Covid-19. Virus-laden aerosols can remain airborne for hours …   Airborne transmission of the virus (SARS-CoV-2) causing Covid-19 has been recognised by the World Health … concentration, restlessness, nausea and sleepiness. If a Covid-19 infected person is in the room, a high CO 2 level …
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  • Introducing the Public Health Solutions Blog Series

    … underpinning how the health system works have changed . Covid-19 has increased immediate demand on the healthcare … workforce experiencing illness itself. Simultaneously Covid-19 has fueled long-term demand on health services as a result of deferred routine care and long covid (which will need ongoing multidisciplinary specialist …
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  • Why a “mouth and nose” lockdown with masks might help avoid a “full body” lockdown at home

    … control measures. Nevertheless, better “source control” of COVID-19 at various Alert Levels by requiring masks in public … social contact with the ability to maintain progress on COVID-19 elimination (reduced risk of transmission and … There is a particular need to protect older people from COVID-19 and already some New Zealand aged residential care …
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  • New modelling on the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks in NZ associated with arriving travellers

    … just published modelling work on estimating the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks associated with air travel to NZ. We find … journal. 1 In this work we aimed to estimate the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks associated with air travel to NZ, along … are in our published paper. 1 Figure 1: Annual risk of a COVID-19 outbreak in NZ assuming one flight per day from …
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  • Shifting all isolation/quarantine facilities to a single air force base: The need for a critical analysis

    … In this blog the arguments for and against shifting all COVID-19 related isolation/quarantine facilities to a single … assumption is made that the current Auckland outbreak of COVID-19 will be successfully controlled and NZ will regain its COVID-19 elimination status for community transmission in the …
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  • How best to classify and count NZ’s border control failures in the COVID-19 pandemic?

    … returnees. Aotearoa NZ has done very well overall with its COVID-19 pandemic response – as acknowledged recently by a … – the repeated failures in border protection against COVID-19. We previously detailed eight such failures up to … the following definitions: A “ border failure ” in the NZ COVID-19 pandemic control context is one where a person in …
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  • Science-informed policy: considerations in support of judicious, circumspect changes to Aotearoa/NZ alert levels during the COVID-19 pandemic

    … of characteristics of the novel SARS-CoV-2 virus and the COVID-19 pandemic that make deciding when and how to change … of infection in individuals who were reported to have been COVID-19 positive and, later, negative. One possible … to lifting physical distancing restrictions. Target organs COVID-19 has been largely identified as a respiratory viral …
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  • Weekly deaths declined in NZ’s lockdown – but we still don’t know exactly why

    … achieve the elimination of community transmission of the COVID-19 virus in NZ. But it was also associated with 548 … to have overcompensated for any increased deaths from COVID-19 ( 22 deaths as per 9 July) plus potential direct … a prominent US epidemiologist with regard to the current COVID-19 pandemic: “Simply assessing current total excess …
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  • Are we ready to eliminate invasive meningococcal disease in Aotearoa New Zealand?

    … to home, NZ’s successful elimination strategy for the Covid-19 pandemic has shed new light on preventing a range of … in NZ were climbing year-on-year from 2014 until the Covid-19 pandemic (Fig 1). This rise was largely driven by … of vaccines. ) Non-vaccine control measures Like Covid-19, meningococcal disease is spread by respiratory …
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