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  • Intensifying Covid-19 Control Measures: 5 Measures for Faster Elimination and 5 Measures to Prevent Future outbreaks

    … and the whole country sustain elimination in the medium term.    Image by Luke Pilkinton-Ching, University of Otago … Also, there is growing concern that conditions such as “long Covid” have potentially very long-term impacts. One commentator suggests a best assumption …
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  • Covid recovery or sustainable transformation?

    … The world has underestimated these risks for too long. They need to be confronted. One of the most profound … is in timescales. Covid will require a largely short-term response, plus follow-up economic and social … quest for decarbonisation. But more likely, the required long-term multi-sector changes will be much more difficult to …
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  • The urgent need for a Covid-19 Action Plan for Schools in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … Current policy settings for Covid-19 in schools During Term 1 2022, the Ministry of Education advised schools to … to both acute and longer-term risks of Covid-19, including long Covid in children and adults , with concerning … is now one of the top three occupational groups at risk of long Covid symptoms. 2 Teachers are reported to be leaving …
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  • The changing COVID-19 situation in Taiwan – what can NZ learn from Taiwan’s latest outbreak?

    … variants. We therefore recommend a range of short-term and long-term upgrades to NZ’s pandemic defences that we … COVID-19 cases since April 2020, ending a remarkably long period of no community transmission. Since then, Taiwan …
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  • Covid-19 vaccines still protect us: How do we get the best out of them?

    … protection against infection, hospitalisation, death, and Long Covid, as well as improving outcomes during pregnancy. … hospitalisation; 2-11 severe disease and mortality; 12-14 Long Covid; 15-22 and in pregnancy. 23 24 See Appendix for … protection via the XBB.1.5 vaccine, at least in the short term with a VE of 76·1% against hospitalisation in a …
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  • Media release: Will NZ’s next government face up to future catastrophic risks?

    … in the series “Where the parties stand?” looking at Long-term thinking & catastrophic risk .   University of Otago … the election trail, it’s very concerning to see how little long-term thinking there is,” says Professor Wilson. The …
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  • Public health and Budget 2024

    … over the next three years.  Public health, which requires long-term investments in areas like child poverty and housing to … funding and increase public understanding of the value of long-term health investments. Despite the tougher …
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  • Calling for action on suicide prevention in Aotearoa

    … A whole-of-society approach is urgently needed to address long-standing high rates of suicide in NZ. This approach … of suicide prevention to all of government with long-overdue collaboration and action by all sectors, public … to shift suicide prevention towards a universal, long-term population-based approach. 4 It requires a policy shift, …
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  • Climate Change and Recent Actions of NZ Political Parties

    … climate related actions taken in the last Parliamentary term (since late 2014). It suggests that relative to its … asking “What is best for NZ society and the planet in the long-term?” may wish to put weight on the climate change issue in …
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  • Backing off international infant formula standards: A retrograde step

    … is optimal infant feeding and has many short-and long-term health benefits. In New Zealand, only 17-22% of infants … are, in fact, mostly repatriated to shareholders abroad. Long term benefits for public and population health will …
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