How the 5-to-11 roll-out unfolded – and what the experts were saying at each stage Early surge (Jan – Apr 2022) “The vaccine needs to be very, very, very safe if we’re going to give it to healthy children, because the risk of Covid-19 to a healthy child is low.” Her message aligned with a…
How eligibility rules and wait-period tweaks shaped the uptake curve
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.
Learn how regular COVID-19 booster campaigns could impact excess mortality in elderly populations of different ethnic groups in New Zealand.
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…...
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…
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.
Something interesting happened in early July.
Tens of thousands of Cases were added to the unvaccinated cohort, then quietly removed a week later.
*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 chart appeared! Then one day, it vanished, never to return. It showed Covid Case numbers by dose count..
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…
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…
