A look at the Covid-19 Adult Dose Rollout in New Zealand (Feb 2021 – May 2025)
How eligibility rules and wait-period tweaks shaped the uptake curve
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Statistical Relationships – Covid Vaccine Doses and Deaths in NZ from 2020 through early 2025
Explore the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on mortality rates, and deaths within days of the dose in New Zealand with this data-driven report on the vaccine rollout.
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.
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.
Subtle Pressure: How Psychological Framing Boosted Vaccine Uptake in 2022
Explore how New Zealand’s COVID-19 vaccine messaging evolved in 2022, shifting from certainty to complexity amid Omicron and booster campaigns, impacting public perception.
Counting Confidence: Did NZ’s Vaccine Stats Tell the Whole Story?
Discover how using the Health Service User population instead of the total population influenced COVID-19 vaccination data, shaping public perception and health messaging.
Interactive NZ Covid Stats by Vaccination Status – Cases / Hospital Admissions / Deaths
Explore COVID-19 trends in New Zealand from April 2022 to December 2023, including cases, deaths, and vaccination insights, now visualized with interactive Flourish charts.
Jacinda Ardern’s Vaccine Side Effect Post Ignites Public Concern and Digital Dialogue
In a September 2021 Facebook post, Jacinda Ardern encouraged New Zealanders to share their COVID-19 vaccine side effect experiences, aiming to normalize mild reactions. Instead, the post received over 32,000 comments, many of which described severe or long-lasting health issues, and even alleged deaths following vaccination.
NZ Covid Vaccination Stats – Change over 12 Months – 18/10/22 – 06/10/23
In the last year, 846,848 doses of Covid vaccine have been delivered in New Zealand. Under 1,800 people have chosen to take their first vaccination, and based on the population estimate for December 2022, that is 0.157% of the Unvaccinated population. There was a bit of a jump in the percentage of the 1-dose cohort…
Who’s Getting The Jab in NZ? – NZ Vaccination Stats – Cohort Changes – week ending 6 October 2023
Somebody asked on X “who is still getting the jab?”. I figured that might make an interesting exercise, so I took a look. Very basic maths: Take the number of “Vaccinations Last Week” from the MoH stats, and divide that by the number of people in the “previous cohort”. ie: Number of 2nd Doses Given…
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