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  • Management of Auckland’s border and COVID-19

    … testing, and potentially some home quarantine) for people travelling from Auckland to other parts of NZ to help … and so in this blog we systematically investigate how risk of infection in fully vaccinated arrivals compares … to departure from their source country. Increasingly, many arrivals are already fully vaccinated before departure. …
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  • Aotearoa New Zealand's fourth wave of Covid-19 and why we should care

    … Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) is experiencing a fourth wave of Covid-19 infection. This conclusion is supported by the … decreasing again. Hospitalisations – The weekly number of people hospitalised increased over the past eight weeks, from … markedly more likely to be admitted to hospital and die from this infection 4 . This pattern of higher death …
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  • Reducing the health burden from contaminated drinking water in NZ: Opportunities arising from the new Water Services Bill

    … system for drinking water. In this blog we consider how the new Water Services Bill might provide a framework to … disease It is conservatively estimated that 34,000 people get sick from drinking water in NZ each year. 1 In … relating to water contaminants in water supplies, with many people still drinking potentially hazardous water. It is …
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  • To ensure success of the trans-Tasman travel “green zone”, we need to reduce system failures at the NZ border

    … that also resulted in subsequent transmission to the people in the community (see Table 1). A returnee (Case C) … a single one, but in reality it is likely to have involved many separate transmission events (all of which reflect a … near-misses, the cause of failures and, therefore, how to prevent these in the future.   Acknowledgements The …
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  • Will the Health Star Rating labels improve people’s diets?

    … … [would help consumers] make informed choices” . (2) Many were incredulous that the Ministers claimed a lack of … Association, Steve Hambleton, said he could not understand how the government could cite ”lack of evidence” as a reason … to improving dietary choices. Conversely, we know people are triggered to action by red lights (11-13). Choice …
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  • Carcinogen exposure in Aotearoa workplaces is unacceptably high

    … in March this year, reports that more than half (58%) of all workers are exposed to at least one workplace … of exposure to work-related carcinogens is crucial. How do we know which workplace exposures potentially … least one carcinogen at any level.   It is not clear how many workers were approached to produce the final sample of …
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  • Rodents running riot in supermarkets – do we need to worry?

    … Summary  In January and February 2024, the public of Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) were captivated by graphic … 3 The close relationship that can occur between many rodent species and humans is described as being … such as farmers handling rodent-contaminated animal feed, people working in pest control, and the general population …
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  • How to Systematically Reduce the Border Failure Risk for COVID-19 in Aotearoa/NZ

    … flights optimal mask use is constrained by the need for people to eat and drink. To minimise transmission risk, rules … Enhanced provision for hand hygiene and revisions to how meals/drinks are distributed could also contribute to … (potentially 6-12 months). In summary , there appear to be many ways by which further risk reduction of COVID-19 …
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  • Monitoring and forecasting the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand including the successful impact of the lockdown

    … our modelling approach to estimating the transmissibility of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic. We demonstrate the usefulness of … manner. The model generates 10,000 epidemic curves for each Re value ranging from 0.1 to 6 with a resolution of 0.1. …
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  • The smokefree policies of political parties: Do they care about people who smoke?

    … In this time of Covid-19, helping people who smoke to quit their addiction has an even greater importance. Smokers are more vulnerable to many harmful health effects, including severe effects from … 7 8 and no government has produced a plan to detail how this goal will be realised. We found nothing in the …
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