With NZ’s media telling us there’s a 5th Wave of Covid hitting, and Baker telling us that we should all be getting Boosted, and wearing masks, let’s look at the highlights this week:

• Boosted cohort infection rate 19.98x that of the Unvaccinated cohort
• Zero new hospitalisations for Covid for the Unvaccinated cohort
• Zero new deaths for the Not Fully Vaccinated (0/1 dose) cohort
• Total “deaths WITH Covid” topped 5,000

Cases

Overall Cases since First Recorded Case

For the No Dose group, the first case is from March 2020. 40+ months.

For the Boosted Group, the first case is from December 2021. 23 months.

New Cases This Week

Hospitalisations

Overall Hospitalisations

As with cases, the 0 dose cohort has taken over 3 years to make this number. Boosted, 23 months.

New Hospitalisations This Week

There were no new hospitalisations for the 0-dose cohort.

Deaths

Overall Deaths With Covid within 28 days of death

First reported NFV death – March 2020.

First reported Boosted death – March 2022

The distribution of the overall “with Covid” deaths by age and vaccination status:

Not Fully Vaccinated: (590) 107x 0-59, 64x 60s, 118x 70s, 172x 80s, 129x 90s

Fully Vaccinated: (660) 133x 0-59, 93x 60s, 134x 70s, 182x 80s, 118x 90s

Boosted: (3782) 190x 0-59, 289x 60s, 787x 70s, 1449x 80s, 1067x 90+

New Deaths With Covid within 28 days this week

No new Deaths With Covid for the Not Fully Vaccinated cohort this week.

The distribution of the week’s deaths by age and vaccination status:

Unvaccinated/Partially Vaccinated: (ZERO)

Fully Vaccinated: (2) 1x 70s. 1x 80s

Boosted: (23) 1x 60s, 1x 70s, 12x 80s, 9x 90+

Vaccination Group Charts