General Theory/Outline Every Monday (excepting holidays, when it’s pushed out), the Ministry of Health provides the latest stats for Covid-related things. I used to focus solely on Deaths by Vaccination Status but now look at Cases, Hospitalisations and Deaths in NZ by Covid Vaccination Status. As the MoH data is generally presented as raw numbers,…
In an article today about how the MoH has shelved plans for a Nationwide Covid Infection Survey, the reason provided by a spokesperson was as follows. “Aotearoa New Zealand has passed the emergency stage of its Covid-19 response, with the virus endemic in our communities. The results of any Covid-19-focused prevalence survey would be unlikely…
I submitted the following request for information last month. I have just been advised that Te Whatu Ora has decided to extend the period of time available to respond to whether they will even answer the questions. I am not the only person experiencing these delays:
With Max Tweedie impersonating Kellie-Jay Keen happening, I wasn’t quite ready for these ones. For non-Twitter users, the @ name is the account, it has impersonated the other account by taking its name/profile picture. Are they protesting the removal of the Legacy ticks, or is there something else going on? It’s a breach of the…
Leo Molloy, whose efforts in looking for the thug are a big part of why he was eventually caught and charged, posted this Tweet, asking whether people thought the charge should be more than “common assault”. From https://communitylaw.org.nz/community-law-manual/chapter-34-common-crimes/assault/: What do you think?
Vaccination Status NZ Vaccination Groups – By highest number of doses given All data for these graphs comes from https://www.health.govt.nz/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-data-and-statistics/covid-19-vaccine-data and the StatsNZ Population Estimate of 5,151,600. NZ Vaccination Groups – By “Vaccinated Status”
A series of images and tweets from people who thought that the filthy un-vaxxed would over-run the health system.
A question from Macca That should (barring any data fudging by MoH in the last quarter) be easy enough to calculate. Using WayBack Machine to look at the 3 January 2023 Vaccination table, we get: Then, comparing to the latest (4 April) data: We get the following numbers of doses given in the last 3…
As usual, all stats are from https://www.health.govt.nz/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-data-and-statistics/covid-19-case-demographics. Vaccination Status NZ Vaccination Groups – By highest number of doses given As per https://www.health.govt.nz/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-data-and-statistics/covid-19-vaccine-data. Cases Overall Cases New Cases This Week Hospitalisations Overall Hospitalisations New Hospitalisations This Week Deaths Overall Deaths With Covid within 28 days of death New Deaths With Covid this week: Not Fully Vaccinated:…
All data for these graphs comes from https://www.health.govt.nz/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-data-and-statistics/covid-19-vaccine-data and the StatsNZ Population Estimate of 5,127,400. The calculation is as follows: Boosted is just the raw number of people who have had Booster 1. 2 dose is the number of people who have had the second dose, minus the number of people who have had the…
Intro Recently, we have had the news that 2022 was NZ’s highest excess mortality in many years, at 10% more than the average over the last 5 year period. Here’s a graph from Excess mortality: Deaths from all causes compared to average over previous years, by age (ourworldindata.org) It clearly shows the over 65s are…