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  • Staying safe from COVID-19 over summer and beyond: The need for more NZ Government action

    … Aotearoa NZ has responded very successfully to the COVID-19 pandemic by achieving elimination and the lowest … the importance of ensuring the huge investment in the COVID-19 response generates lasting benefits for NZ. … has achieved elimination of community transmission of COVID-19 with the lowest death rate in the OECD [1, 2]. The …
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  • Management of Auckland’s border and COVID-19

    … with reasonable quality data implies that the risk of Covid-19 infection for most vaccinated international arrivals … risk of being infected with the pandemic virus causing Covid-19 by someone fully vaccinated who arrived from … other, appropriately reflect the actual relative risks of Covid-19 infection between different locations. At present, …
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  • Covid-19: A planetary disease

    … blog focuses on the underlying environmental causes of Covid-19 (Covid) and the role of international law in tackling both Covid and other planetary crises. I argue that major changes …
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  • Five lessons for Aotearoa NZ from the current COVID-19 outbreak in New South Wales

    … but the Greater Sydney region is currently facing a large COVID-19 outbreak, driven by the Delta variant. The New South … aircrew to and from Sydney Airport tested positive for COVID-19 and was confirmed as a case on 16 June with … imported from the US ( 4 ). There have been more than 5000 COVID-19 cases reported in NSW since the outbreak began. In …
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  • Throwing open the windows: The need for ventilation improvements as part of Covid-19 outbreak control in Aotearoa

    … of indoor aerosol transmission of the virus that causes COVID-19 is increasingly recognised. In addition to public … Airborne transmission of the pandemic virus causing COVID-19 has been recognised by the World Health … importance of infectious aerosols as a main way in which Covid-19 has been spread [6]. It notes that droplet …
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  • Avoidable hospitalisations: Helping our health system get through COVID-19

    … can use intense public health controls to eradicate COVID-19 from the country – we must also plan for other … 1 Better resilience for our health system in the face of COVID-19 must include reducing current avoidable pressures that are not COVID-related. Emergency policies should include the …
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  • How to best prioritise Covid-19 Vaccination in Aotearoa/New Zealand

    … New Zealand has begun to roll out its Covid-19 vaccination programme, starting with those working … has released a final report [3] on Resource Allocation and Covid-19 that includes a section on vaccine prioritisation. The NZ Government has also developed a Covid-19 Vaccine Strategy [4] but without any detailed …
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  • Potential impact of an Omicron outbreak: A look at the IHME modelling for NZ

    … results of modelling for an Omicron variant outbreak of Covid-19 in NZ by the Institute of Health Metrics and … of Washington in the US. This organisation is producing Covid-19 model results for nearly all countries in the world … stress” in February (defined as 10-19% occupancy with Covid-19 patients). It then moves to “moderate stress” (5-9% …
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  • Urgent measures needed to allow the safe re-opening of Auckland schools

    … country where there is ongoing community transmission of COVID-19. These include very high vaccination coverage of … community cases, may contribute to further transmission of COVID-19, with devastating health and wellbeing outcomes for … the overwhelming majority of young children with COVID-19 experience only mild symptoms. Since the beginning …
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  • Protecting New Zealand children from the developing Omicron outbreak

    … heavy impact on health services, including barriers to non-Covid healthcare, and to the capacity of schools to continue … are significantly over-represented in case data. Figure 1. Covid-19 cases in the Los Angeles County school system , … prevention strategies that were effective at preventing Covid-19 transmission in schools during in-person instruction …
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