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  • Getting through together: ethical values for a pandemic

    … Public health responses to infectious diseases such as COVID-19 require us to draw on our common humanity and be … on preparing for a potentially severe novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Shanthi Ameratunga raises the spectre …
  • Aotearoa’s perinatal and maternal death rates remain inequitable and unjust

    … likelihood of a pregnancy ending in perinatal death where Covid-19 infection occurred during pregnancy. A decrease in … at perinatal mortality (2007-2021), the impact of Covid-19 infection (2020-2021), maternal mortality … the deaths following the birth of a live baby. Findings on Covid-19 and perinatal deaths Pregnant individuals with …
  • From across the Ditch: How Australia has to decide on the least worst option for COVID-19

    … politicians – we have avoided the explosive beginning of a COVID-19 epidemic that most other countries are now cursed … quickly as possible which treatments of people sick with COVID-19 saves lives. To work out our strategies for … with a chronic condition (for whom the mortality from COVID-19 is much higher). All of these measures I estimate …
  • How to best describe NZ’s border control problems around COVID-19 with a possible typology

    … of border controls which are critical to sustaining COVID-19 elimination, 2 even with the initial successes with … A zero failure rate associated with border control for COVID-19 appears to be possible, as per Samoa and Tonga over … failures. A hazard should be regarded as of concern in the COVID-19 situation given that it could lead to an outbreak …
  • Why Aotearoa New Zealand needs a Public Health Communication Centre

    … will be covering emerging public health threats such as Covid-19; established public health threats such as tobacco; … also require rapid public health responses. 1-3 The Covid-19 pandemic is a particularly vivid example of a … emerge. Media interest in public health boomed during the Covid-19 pandemic. There was an almost five-fold increase in …
  • Bioethicists, scientists and politicians; decision-making in a pandemic

    … element behind New Zealand’s successful response to Covid-19. I looked at the briefings from the Prime Minister … them. Bioethics played an important role in eliminating COVID-19 from New Zealand.” A central ethical value in … and Values Study conducted a survey before and after the Covid-19 level 4 lockdown. It showed that trust in the …
  • The hantavirus outbreak is the warning the world needs to improve pandemic preparedness

    … such pandemic threats. The parallels with the start of the Covid pandemic are obvious. The Andes hantavirus shares a … the outbreak from becoming a global pandemic. Unlike COVID, the Andes virus was already known to scientists and … environment of a cruise ship. In stark contrast with Covid, mild or even asymptomatic infections are rare and the …

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