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  • Time to stop dodging bullets? NZ’s eight recent border control failures

    … in Aotearoa/NZ relating to the pandemic virus that causes COVID-19, since early August 2020, equivalent to one every … community transmission of the pandemic virus that causes COVID-19. 1 It has sustained the lowest COVID-19 mortality rate in the OECD. 2 However, since early …
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  • Health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 response: NZ compared to OECD countries

    … has achieved the lowest death rate in the OECD from the COVID-19 pandemic, equivalent to around 2000 lives saved … border controls and other measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, NZ has been the only country to … elimination as a potential outcome). Mortality data for COVID-19 were from the Worldometers website 3 for probable …
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  • Monitoring and forecasting the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand including the successful impact of the lockdown

    … transmissibility of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic. We demonstrate the usefulness of the … on containing the pandemic in New Zealand. The global COVID-19 pandemic represents an unprecedented public health … a mean of 7.5 days and SD of 3.4 days from the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan (China). Other researchers report a smaller …
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  • Australia’s Quarantine Systems Failures: Lessons for NZ

    … have successfully eliminated community transmission of COVID-19, albeit with occasional outbreaks from imported …   Overall, NZ and Australia have done very well with their COVID-19 pandemic responses and they are ranked 2nd and 9th … bubble”) provides an opportunity to benchmark COVID-19 border control policies and practices, identify …
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  • Might a ‘Coasean’ social contract mitigate overall societal harm from COVID-19?

    … forged to address the major dimensions of response to the COVID-19 pandemic when using a mitigation strategy: the … immunity arose in the population. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, most countries have adopted a ‘flattening … risk of harm to health, welfare and the economy from the COVID-19 pandemic. Those most at risk of hospitalisation and …
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  • Reducing the risk of Covid-19 transmission through the use of air purifiers

    … the risk of transmission for the virus that causes Covid-19 (SARS-CoV-2) by containment and concentration of the … principles of using air purifiers to reduce the risk of Covid-19 transmission.   Examples of air purifiers (source … with low levels of ventilation are high-risk settings for Covid-19 transmission, as an infected person can breathe out …
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  • Why we need an Aotearoa Centre for Disease Control (CDC)

    … Summary Future pandemics could be far worse than Covid-19. An Aotearoa Centre for Disease Control (CDC) would … in Aotearoa New Zealand, the Pacific, and globally. The Covid-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on health and … threat of future pandemics that could be far worse than Covid-19. 4 And these risks seem likely to increase with …
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  • The maths and ethics of minimising COVID-19 deaths in NZ

    … The NZ Government must do more to clearly articulate its COVID-19 strategy: eradication or ‘flattening the curve’ … up its control measures to deal with the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic. But in our view at least, there is still … SARS pandemic and seems to have been achieved in China for COVID-19), or is it going for ‘flattening the curve’ …
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  • Preparing for Omicron: A proactive Government response is urgently needed to minimise harms

    … (Figure 2). Figure 1: New Zealand’s 7-day average of Covid-19 cases in the community (confirmed and probable) … of Health data) Figure 2: New Zealand’s 7-day average of Covid-19 hospitalisations and cases in ICU or HDU (from 1 … transmission. Figure 3: New Zealand’s 7-day average of Covid-19 cases at the border (from 1 February 2020 to 16 …
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  • Resource: Promoting respiratory infection safety in the workplace - A protocol

    … expected that these protocols will reduce transmission of Covid-19, influenza, RSV, and other infections spread by the … windows: The need for ventilation improvements as part of Covid-19 outbreak control in Aotearoa Reducing the risk of Covid-19 transmission through the use of air purifiers …
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