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… New Zealand faces momentous choices, crystallised by the Covid pandemic. Here we consider how we can shape policies … and programmes to ensure that the recovery from the Covid lockdown provides an opportunity for a sustainable … One of the most profound risk s ahead, as we recover from Covid, is climate change.   A key difference between Covid …

… role in minimising the health and economic impact of COVID-19, regardless of the long-term strategy we use against … settings such as gyms. As New Zealand’s outbreak of the COVID-19 Delta variant continues, and the public becomes … mode of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) is through respiratory droplets and aerosols that …

… report of the NZ Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Covid-19 pandemic response. The two Inquiry reports in … given that modelling suggests around a 20% chance of a Covid-scale pandemic each decade and there are growing expert … March), marking the end of the formal evaluation of our Covid-19 pandemic response.  The  terms of reference …

… to both identify cases in the community as part of the COVID-19 elimination strategy, and to confirm when the virus … NZ has adopted an elimination strategy towards the COVID-19 pandemic (as some of us just recently detailed in a … assurance of elimination.   Critical characteristics of COVID-19 to first consider There have been clusters of …

… success story by ending community transmission of COVID-19. While there have been some well-publicised recent … international collaborators and the NZ public on key COVID-19 risk management issues. Clear communication with the public is critical for managing the COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed, it appears to have been a major …

… hospitalisation and ICU burden from the recent waves of COVID-19 in Australia, dominated by the Omicron variant. The … NZ Omicron wave. Australia is in the middle of a COVID-19 wave, predominantly fuelled by the new Omicron … have increased exponentially with ~2.31 million confirmed COVID-19 cases occurring in the last two months, …

… Media discourse in NZ has involved comparing NZ’s COVID-19 response with a range of other jurisdictions, … country data with NZ having the lowest mortality rate from COVID-19 in this grouping [1]. But over the last six months … discourse in NZ has particularly involved comparing NZ’s COVID-19 response with a smaller range of jurisdictions, …

… burden of symptoms and disease in survivors of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of these symptoms point to damage in … for Aotearoa/New Zealand to persist with its successful COVID-19 elimination strategy. Following clear and focused … scientific advice, New Zealand chose to meet the current COVID-19 pandemic with an elimination strategy. As we have …

… quality communication by the NZ Government for much of the COVID-19 pandemic has been remarked on. But given that the … important of these would be to further depoliticise the COVID-19 response. Overall, Aotearoa NZ has done very well with its COVID-19 pandemic response and it is typically ranked in the …