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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.

When 94% Isn’t 94%: How Vaccination Stats Shaped Public Perception in New Zealand
In early 2021, New Zealand’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout began with a sense of pragmatic precision. Far from the chaos unfolding in other parts of the world, our small country had the advantage of time — and we used it. Daily updates from the Ministry of Health were a picture of logistical order: doses received, doses…

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.

Fifth Monkeypox Case Linked to Queenstown Winter Pride Festival
New Zealand reports its fifth Monkeypox case, prompting urgent calls for at-risk groups to receive the newly approved Jynneos vaccine and strengthen public health response.

MonkeyPox Alert for Winter Pride Attendees!
Attend Winter Pride in Queenstown? Be alert for Monkeypox symptoms like rash and fever. Seek medical advice if exposed or symptomatic.

More of The Deleted Posts from Jacinda Ardern’s “Let’s Talk About Side Effects” Facebook Post
To save strain on everything, I’ve split the thousand or so replies that were deleted from Jacinda’s Vaccine Side-Effect Facebook post into several pages. Part one is already up, onto part two (apologies for any double-ups). Don’t forget to check out Part one and look out for Part Three.

The first set of Thousands of Deleted Posts from Jacinda Ardern’s “Let’s Talk About Side Effects” Facebook Post
Remember when Jacinda told us about her sore arm side effect, and that the side effects from the Covid vaccine were temporary and thousands of posts about vaccine injuries were deleted? https://www.facebook.com/share/p/9wAt8fmr32J5yH26/ These are a few of them. I have done my best to obfuscate people’s identities for these screengrabs of deleted posts. Adding them…

Confirmation Received for OIA revealing the doubling of deaths in 0-4 year olds
I had noticed a discrepancy of 20 in one of the lines of deaths, and the increase of 1.7-2.1x the number of deaths in 0-4 year olds. Given that Official Information Requests should be accurate, a confirmation request went back to HNZ and asked them to confirm the data. To their credit, they replied fairly…
Why did the number of 0-4 year olds dying in NZ double in 2022 compared to previous years?
Based on the response to an OIA, where HNZ has provided Mortality data by age group, it appears as though the number of infants (0-4 year old) may have more than doubled in 2022.

100+ “Vaccinated” Infants in NZ. How many have since died? HNZ can’t tell you.
Back in March, concerned at the dosing of infants with Comirnaty, I decided to ask the Ministry of Health a number of questions, including one related to the title of this article, via an Official Information Act Request. 5. Any data relating to number of deaths of infants who have received the Covid vaccine in…