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  • Preparing for Omicron: A proactive Government response is urgently needed to minimise harms

    … Delta variant in NZ. Since reaching a peak of around 200 community cases a day in mid-November 2021, Delta cases have … 1: New Zealand’s 7-day average of Covid-19 cases in the community (confirmed and probable) (from 1 February 2020 to … Omicron. While not all of these failures will result in a community outbreak, a certain proportion almost certainly …
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  • Media release: A call for strong leadership to reduce NZ’s dangerously high antibiotic use

    … Dr Thomas points out that significant reductions in community antibiotic dispensing have occurred in many other … organisations have set ambitious goals for reductions in community antibiotic prescribing. “Similar reductions could be readily achieved in New Zealand if community prescribers committed to prescribing antibiotics …
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  • Smokefree Aotearoa – world-leading developments with profound public health implications

    … Key priorities for the smokefree and public health community include providing sustained advocacy and support to … funding for mass media campaigns, and support for community mobilisation and community-based interventions to help achieve the smokefree …
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  • Engaging online simulator of measles outbreaks (& how NZ needs to do better in eliminating measles)

    … not trigger other cases. You can even see that sometimes a community with 80% coverage will be protected when a community at 90% will not – that’s the effect of chance. For a community to be really safe from a measles outbreak it pays …
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  • The Omicron waves – Comparing Aotearoa NZ and Australia in four key graphs

    … in South Africa in late November 2021, with Australian community cases identified in early December 2021. Whereas … case at the border occurred in mid-December 2021, with community transmission first reported in mid-January 2022 . … more highly transmissible Omicron variant spread into the community was a wave of cases on a substantially larger scale …
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  • Housing and urban regeneration in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … homes need to be provided by central or local government, community trusts, iwi or hapū, using innovative models, such … evaluated. The location of housing in relation to schools, community amenities, green and blue spaces is critical to occupants feeling part of the existing community and having access to school and workplaces that are …
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  • Five Potential Enhancements of Covid-19 Outbreak Control in Aotearoa NZ

    … health work force is conducting extensive contact tracing, community testing, genomics work and wastewater testing. Wage … outbreak remain (ie, with finding undetected cases in the community) and so in this blog we suggest potential actions … through Alert Levels faster (albeit based on the extent of community testing and wastewater testing). In essence what is …
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  • Making the most of masks

    … out of lockdown, the need to prevent new outbreaks in the community remains imperative. One of the most effective ways … of 35 studies supported the use of face masks in the community for COVID-19 prevention, and encouraged further … “all available epidemiologic evidence suggests that community-wide mask-wearing results in reduced rates of …
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  • The COVID-19 pandemic in Aotearoa/NZ: A brief photo-essay with 10 photos

    … 1 The goal of eliminating COVID-19 transmission in the community has driven subsequent interventions to keep it out … transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic virus in the community.   Figure 3: A new type of “rush hour” , with this … areas) was successfully used to achieve the elimination of community transmission. Indeed, the stringency of the control …
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  • How to Systematically Reduce the Border Failure Risk for COVID-19 in Aotearoa/NZ

    … nation internationally when it comes to eliminating community transmission of the COVID-19 pandemic. 1-3 The … destinations that are experiencing active COVID-19 community transmission. Additionally, shipping and operation … occupations Given the substantial risk of a community outbreak precipitated by an asymptomatic index …
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