Covid
Weekly updates from NZ Ministry of Health (“Te Whatu Ora”), presented by Vaccination Status, and other Vaccination Status-related data.
As of 24 February 2024, TWO has stopped providing Vaccination Status data for Cases/Hospital/ICU/Deaths with Covid. I will resume the Weekly updates if they ever return.
Unless otherwise specified, all data presented in this section is sourced from the NZ Government, with links to that source data provided.
**Data to 6 February 2024 has Case/Hospital/ICU per-capita based on the entire population but lacking the 12 and under values, this had no impact on any Boosted per-capita rates, but artificially decreased all others. With the correct values, each of 2/1/0 dose cohorts per-capita values would be higher.
From 6 February 2024 these per-capita statistics are based on the population with the 5-12s removed. No change to Death per-capita.
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..
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…
How Many Died, and When? Revisiting New Zealand’s COVID Data from 2022–2023
Discover the full story behind New Zealand’s COVID-19 data, revealing how framing and timing influenced public perception and vaccine safety narratives.
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.
If NZ’s 2023 Deaths With Covid was this bad for Boosted, how bad will it get?
Analyzing COVID-19 death trends in New Zealand for 2023 reveals surprising insights into vaccination status and mortality rates throughout the year.
Where’s the Vaccination Status in the @tewhatuora Data Gone?
Those of you who know of my weekly updates may know (I assume you look at the footer of the charts) that the data comes from the Te Whatu Ora “Case Demographics” page. Each week, I take the Vaccination Status data for Cases/Hospitalisations/ICU/Deaths and present it in graph form and per-100,000. Until this week, when…
Why I always say “Projections are lies”
Since the Excess Mortality after Vaccination became obvious, the “authorities” have used various “experts” to show that “Well, actually, when you take age and other things into account, 11,788 extra dead people compared to 2014-2019 actually means fewer people died.” This is happening around the world, as countries mysteriously find that “not all that many…
