How Will NZ’s Excess Mortality look in 10 Years if we Keep Boosting?
Learn how regular COVID-19 booster campaigns could impact excess mortality in elderly populations of different ethnic groups in New Zealand.
2025
Who Wants to Help Request Some Public Data from HNZ?
Transparency is a cornerstone of public health — or it’s supposed to be. In an effort to understand how vaccination protocols intersect with all-cause mortality, I submitted several straightforward Official Information Act (OIA) requests to Health New Zealand (HNZ). These included: These were not overlapping requests. But HNZ decided they “constitute the same or similar…
Is a New Booster Really the Best Protection? What does the HNZ data say?
As winter looms and COVID-19 signals resurface in New Zealand’s wastewater, health experts are again urging booster uptake. Public health professor Michael Baker recently told RNZ: “If anyone has been putting off getting their Covid-19 booster, now would be a good time to get it.” (https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/562712/covid-19-new-wave-could-be-coming-after-11-month-reprieve). But does New Zealand’s own health data back up…
Unpacking Post-Vaccination Mortality Patterns in New Zealand (2020–2024)
Discover the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on all-cause mortality in New Zealand through age-stratified data analysis. Gain insights into demographic patterns post-vaccination.
Data Fudgery or Stats Oddities? Early-mid July 2022
Something interesting happened in early July.
Tens of thousands of Cases were added to the unvaccinated cohort, then quietly removed a week later.
What is New Zealand’s TRUE Excess Mortality Story?
*Originally published April 2023. * Updated May 2025 with StatsNZ data that became available February 2025 – Note: all data herein is raw. There is no modelling or ASMR involved, nor was there any need to steal and distribute private medical data. It was all public. It was all there, available to anyone with an…
A look at the Birth, life, and death of a chart on the MoH Covid Data Page
A chart appeared! Then one day, it vanished, never to return. It showed Covid Case numbers by dose count..
The Server Kitten has been Playing
He decided the site needed some caching, or something, and something something javascript and css. So he’s made some changes. The site should be more responsive now. Or, he broke it. Let us know in the comments, or if those don’t work, via the SCA Network.
NZ Mortality – 2000 – 2025 by the Numbers
The new data available from StatsNZ on Weekly deaths allows us to calculate Excess Mortality for any given week past week 52 of 2004. We can do this for Week 1 of 2005 by taking the average mortality for Week 1 of 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, and 2000 and comparing it to the mortality for…
Kittens In Server Rooms.. and as Land Sharks
A little bit of a timeline cleanse, some cuteness....
Welcome, SCA faithful!
Hey team! Thanks for helping to beta test the next stages of SCNZ’s journey. It’s awesome to have you here. Feel free to use this thread as a more private place to chat than the other ones, it will forever remain only available to SCA Lifetime Members....
Why Long-Term COVID Data Analysis Is Feared More Than Short-Term Snapshots
I recently had the idea to use ChatGPT to assist with collecting and analyzing the MoH snapshots in the Wayback Machine to help with a bit of long-term timeline recreation. It seemed like a simple enough task for a machine to complete.. they can just view the index file and grab the relevant tables quicker…
