A quick look at All-Cause Mortality by Doses of Covid-19 Vaccine Taken in New Zealand
Which groups had the highest death rates post-vaccine rollout? The answer may surprise you. Or not.
Category Covid
Analysis of official, public NZ Government Health Data relating to Covid.
As of 24 February 2024, HNZ/TWO stopped providing Vaccination Status data for Cases/Hospital/ICU/Deaths with Covid.
Unless otherwise specified, all data presented in this section is sourced from the NZ Government, with links to that source data provided.
Has there been a “Sharp jump” in Covid Cases recently? Let’s see..
Checking on the actual data to see whether the Covid jump is accurate.
A look at the Covid-19 Pediatric (5-11) Dose Rollout in New Zealand (Feb 2022 – May 2025)
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…
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
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…...
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…
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.
