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  • Increases in speed limits: Unjust and unjustifiable

    … speed limit increases in the Land Transport Rule: Setting of Speed Limits 2024. The Rule will raise speed limits around … terms.  The Rule disregards broader public health impacts of increased speed limits, such as discouraging active … between speed and safety.  Implications for policy and practice When setting speed limits, consideration needs to be …
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  • Mortality declines in Aotearoa NZ during the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic

    … In this blog we review the impact of Aotearoa NZ’s Covid-19 response strategies on mortality patterns during the first 2 years of the pandemic. We find that NZ experienced an increase in … and suppression strategies used for the first 2 years of the pandemic and there has also been time to prepare the …
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  • Dropping the ball on measles? Aotearoa must close an ‘immunity gap’ to avoid a measles epidemic

    … Summary The number of children susceptible to measles in Aotearoa New Zealand … those aged 15 months to 9 years without documented receipt of two doses of MMR vaccine. Priority should be given to … largely gone.  Implications for public health policy and practice Catch-up MMR immunisation is urgently needed in …
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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 … elimination. Both the graphical and tabular presentation of case data need to emphasise the critical distinction … that causes COVID-19, and detected in NZ, belong to one of two broad groups: infected overseas or infected within NZ. …
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  • Potential impact of an Omicron outbreak: A look at the IHME modelling for NZ

    … In this blog we summarise the results of modelling for an Omicron variant outbreak of Covid-19 in NZ by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation. This work suggests that in …
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  • Urgent measures needed to allow the safe re-opening of Auckland schools

    … In this blog we describe the range of urgent measures that are needed to facilitate a safe return to schools in Auckland and other regions of the country where there is ongoing community transmission of COVID-19. These include very high vaccination coverage of …
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  • To ensure success of the trans-Tasman travel “green zone”, we need to reduce system failures at the NZ border

    … [2]. A recent favourable development has been the roll-out of the vaccination programme – starting with border workers. … health workers, border workers and indeed the whole “Team of 5 million”. However, an upcoming challenge is to ensure … Information Act requests to clarify what has happened. QR code scanning Mandating that all MIQ workers must scan QR …
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  • How to Systematically Reduce the Border Failure Risk for COVID-19 in Aotearoa/NZ

    … to identify optimal methods for reducing the risk of future COVID-19 outbreaks in Aotearoa/NZ. The persisting occurrence of cross-border incursions of the pandemic virus (five since … and testing required for people coming into NZ. This practice may expose NZ port workers to added risk, as could …
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  • Testing for COVID-19 in NZ to achieve the elimination goal

    … testing to both identify cases in the community as part of the COVID-19 elimination strategy, and to confirm when the … continue testing symptomatic people, with the sensitivity of case detection expanded by steadily broadening the case … to assess the elimination goal could involve testing of higher-risk exposed groups, potentially using pooled …
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  • Tax policy reform: equity, fairness, and health

    … public services  to deal effectively with a daunting range of economic, social, health and climate change crises . Our tax system does not regard wealth as a source of revenue: we do not tax assets, inheritances, or gifts … o Waitangi. This briefing outlines principles for redesign of our tax system and suggests changes. These proposals for …
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