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  • Monitoring CO2 indoors for improving ventilation as a Covid-19 control tool

    … One way to reduce the potential viral dose that can be inhaled is to increase ventilation to help disperse viral … stale air out, meaning occupants are far less likely to be inhaling each other’s breath. In a small proportion of … senses can give an approximate guide. Good ventilation can be felt as a light breeze. A stale smell or “dead” sound can …
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  • Being Bolder – Public Health Endgames for NZ

    … also considers what additional endgames this country could be bolder about tackling.    Examples of successful endgames … in the Middle East, Africa and Asia). Such endgames can be highly valued as they can permanently eliminate health … target year of 2020, it will become the first disease to be eradicated through the use of antibiotics Malaria – …
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  • More evidence that elimination is the best COVID-19 control strategy for health and the economy

    … data and suggests that COVID-19 elimination appears to be superior to mitigation/suppression strategies in health … and a longer-term perspective is needed, before we can be really certain about the relative benefits and costs of … from the perspective of how the Report’s findings could be used to improve the COVID-19 response in France. However, …
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  • Why a “mouth and nose” lockdown with masks might help avoid a “full body” lockdown at home

    … spaces could reduce the risk of outbreaks (should there be border control failures) and reduce the likelihood that we … collection) The spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus appears to be mainly through conversational contact, at home and at … have improved technologies for contact tracing, we need to be extra cautious around permitting large social events for …
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  • Making the most of masks

    … effectiveness and make the case that mask use needs to be universal in all indoor environments at Alert Level 2, … Inconsistencies and gaps in mask use requirements need to be addressed if we are to come out of this lockdown quickly … churches, and indoor social settings – While there may be hesitation to utilize masks in settings which involve …
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  • The Pros and Cons of a Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Goal: The Case is Overwhelmingly Pro for NZ

    … bold and ambitious health and societal outcomes can be successful. The eradication of smallpox within two decades … in research and development, for example, as appears to be occurring with NZ’s predator-free goal, with new methods … who gained minimal or no health benefits. There would also be substantial benefits of deaths and morbidity averted among …
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  • “Action for Healthy Waterways”: some big ticket actions that the Government has neglected

    … outcomes. These national-level policy instruments should be given serious attention in addition to the MfE proposals. … intensifying. One key way to address this problem would be taxing fertiliser (eg, at the fertiliser factory or port … nitrogen and/or phosphorus content of the fertiliser could be the determinant of the tax level (eg, nitrogen focused …
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  • Casting a long shadow: Infection drives stomach cancer inequalities in Māori and Pacific peoples

    … in NZ. We also discuss a possible next step which could be for one DHB to pilot a ‘test and treat’ screening … here and around the world, we estimate that there would be up to 85 fewer deaths every year (61 Māori, 24 Pacific) if … suggesting that the excess risk of stomach cancer may be largely due to this genetic mutation (7). In fact, the …
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  • Can pandemic threats justify border closure for island nations like NZ?

    … Health Organization (WHO) advice is that while there might be benefits from border closure (in terms of delays to disease introduction), that it is unlikely to be able to prevent importation, and can have huge economic … historically there is evidence that border closure can be effective in preventing the spread of pandemic influenza: …
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  • How best to classify and count NZ’s border control failures in the COVID-19 pandemic?

    … by a “border control failure” so that such events can be used to guide performance improvement. This blog proposes … in MIQ who test positive at the 12 day test are likely to be failures of this type, and genome testing can be used to help confirm such transmission events. This type …
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