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  • The long-term health burden of COVID-19: further justification for NZ’s elimination strategy

    … of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of these symptoms point to damage in the brain and heart. These long-term harms add … of infection with SARS-CoV-2 does not end with discharge from hospital, with the disappearance of the virus, or with … “routine” responses to the COVID-19 pandemic do not grasp how different this virus is. As this blog post is intended to …
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  • Urgent action needed to help eliminate cervical cancer in Aotearoa

    … World Health Organization (WHO) has set an ambitious goal to eliminate a cancer as a public health problem. Aotearoa … years on, NZ has made some great strides but is still far from meeting the 2030 targets required to put us on the path … screening. 9 HPV vaccination in NZ The HPV vaccine is safe and effective at protecting against HPV infection that …
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  • COVID-19 and Māori health – when equity is more than a word

    … inequities within our society, frame equity as an add-on to a substantial list of other ‘equally’ important … to equity. Saying, ‘equity is important’ is different from actually making equity important via intentional actions … to die from COVID-19. 19 However, it remains unclear how age works to increase risk. Older age may lead to worse …
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  • Severe weather events linked to outbreaks of crypto in Aotearoa – New study

    … Summary In this Briefing we summarise findings from  our recent study into the link between severe weather … evidence, though additional research is needed to further clarify this relationship. This is especially so since  rainfall intensity is expected to keep rising in NZ due to climate change. This study …
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  • The long shadow of Cyclone Gabrielle: Brief review at 12 months

    … persisting long shadow in terms of: (i) ongoing disruption to lives and stress from housing damage; (ii) ongoing disruption to lives from infrastructure damage; and (iii) persisting …
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  • More wastewater testing could guide optimal Covid-19 control on the path back to elimination

    … effective in determining if a population is very likely to be Covid-19 free, when compared to typical levels of community testing. It also achieves … to detecting one case out of populations ranging from 29,000 to 290,000. 3 As such, wastewater can allow “for …
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  • Using Rapid Antigen Tests to improve COVID-19 control in Aotearoa NZ

    … Most COVID-19 testing aims to identify infected people. To date, Aotearoa NZ has relied … this blog we briefly describe RATs, their performance, and how they could be used to further improve Aotearoa NZ’s … . Figure 1: Rapid Antigen Test kit given out freely from the NHS in the UK Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, …
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  • The need for an updated strategic approach to Covid-19 control in Aotearoa NZ

    … The NZ Government appears to have drifted into an unclear strategic approach to Covid-19 control. In this blog we outline one potential … tighter internal borders. Fortunately, there are examples from five Australian states and territories that show that …
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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 … that website. We also detail a potentially more useful way to categorise case data so that the public and research … for maintenance of any elimination status, depending on how that is defined. 2 The importance of these cases depends …
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  • Open data, transparency and power – role of the Virtual Health Information Network

    … the challenges in this new data environment. We focus on how the Virtual Health Information Network (VHIN) can contribute to stronger health research and therefore benefit the health … to the 2013 Census, a number of Stats NZ surveys and data from a range of government agencies and non-government …
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