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  • To ensure success of the trans-Tasman travel “green zone”, we need to reduce system failures at the NZ border

    … strategy against the pandemic [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 …
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  • Why we need an Aotearoa Centre for Disease Control (CDC)

    … organisation would be more effective, and make better use of resources, if it functioned as a ‘distributed’ centre with … nodes across universities and other organisations. Much of the resources already exist, with an established Crown … 4 And these risks seem likely to increase with bioweapon development from advances in biotechnology and artificial …
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  • Are we ready to eliminate invasive meningococcal disease in Aotearoa New Zealand?

    … and young adults, and each case has a significant risk of death and permanent disability such as limb amputation. … Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) has experienced high rates of IMD for the last 30 years, but recent international and … advance in the feasibility of IMD elimination was the development of effective vaccines against serogroup B …
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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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  • 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 … In April 2022 the Hon David Parker announced the development of a new Tax Principles Bill. While this Bill has …
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  • The Government’s transport plans work against our health

    … 2024-34 neither supports the health and wellbeing of the population nor addresses the transport challenges of the 21st century. The current transport system causes … system does not support New Zealanders to lead healthy and sustainable lives, then it cannot “effectively underpin NZs …
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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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  • 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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  • 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 existing …
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