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  • Covid-19 Hospitalisations Now Peaking in Aotearoa NZ – But Key Covid-19 Control Measures Still Need to be Maintained

    … In this blog we present hospitalisation data for Covid-19 suggesting that the numbers are now peaking across … been lower than the peaks in Australia. Although various Covid-19 control measures are being de-escalated, we detail … suggests that the number of people in hospital with a Covid-19 diagnosis peaked for Auckland on 15 March 2022, but …
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  • Using Rapid Antigen Tests to improve COVID-19 control in Aotearoa NZ

    … Most COVID-19 testing aims to identify infected people. To date, … Tests (RATs) have a complementary role, particularly if COVID-19 infection becomes widespread. In this blog we … how they could be used to further improve Aotearoa NZ’s COVID-19 response . Figure 1: Rapid Antigen Test kit given …
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  • Children and young people and COVID-19: The urgent need for improved guidance in NZ

    … of the changing landscape of international evidence about COVID-19 risk for children and young people. The high … Auckland outbreak may be a preview of what an uncontrolled COVID-19 pandemic would look like in Aotearoa New Zealand. … to improve coordination of child-centred policy in the COVID-19 response with better Māori and Pasifika …
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  • More evidence that elimination is the best COVID-19 control strategy for health and the economy

    … a European think tank that aims to identify an optimal COVID-19 response strategy. It considers mortality data, GDP impacts, and mobility data and suggests that COVID-19 elimination appears to be superior to … certain about the relative benefits and costs of different COVID-19 control strategies. The likely health and economic …
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  • Strengthening Omicron mitigation strategies in Early Childhood Education settings

    … Aotearoa New Zealand is in a major Omicron outbreak. With Covid-19 cases doubling every few days, what opportunities … and their whānau as we navigate the next phases of the Covid-19 outbreak. There remains substantial scope for … increasing outdoor activities and appropriate mask use. Covid-19 infection in young children In general, young …
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  • We need rapid progress on digital solutions to help eliminate COVID-19 from New Zealand

    … New Zealand could adopt to support the country’s COVID-19 elimination strategy. We argue for the … present major benefits for the collective effort against COVID-19 and can also strengthen our preparedness for future … contributions to the pandemic response. The scale of the COVID-19 pandemic has quickly overwhelmed existing health …
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  • COVID-19 and the law in Aotearoa NZ

    … successful elimination of community transmission of the COVID-19 pandemic. This blog details key aspects of the … costs, and mask use. The implementation of law relating to COVID-19 has meant that public health law has become real in … was NZ’s legal framework available for responding to COVID-19 in early 2020, along with the Civil Defence …
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  • In May 2022 the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act 2020 expires: what then?

    … The COVID-19 Public Health Response Act 2020 (‘Covid Act’) expires on 13 May 2022. A further time-limited legal framework will be needed to support Covid policy. A new Bill will require public submissions and …
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  • COVID-19 and Māori health – when equity is more than a word

    … we are extremely concerned about the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on our whānau and communities. We are also … are troubled by the local proliferation of commentaries on COVID-19 within multiple fora that either intentionally … inter-generational and current experiences tell us that COVID-19 will have differential impacts on our whānau and …
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  • What we would like to see on the Ministry of Health’s website to better inform progress on COVID-19 elimination

    … In this blog we analyse data from the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 website and display a key graph that we think should … community can better track progress on the path to COVID-19 elimination. Both the graphical and tabular … infected with the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19, and detected in NZ, belong to one of two broad …
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