“I have said it before, and I will say it again: the same political or journalistic treatment applied to any episode of seasonal flu would terrify us just as much as the current epidemic. Just as the staging – with real-time counts of victims – of any major health problem would
Here we all are in week two of an event that is unprecedented in our lifetimes. Our country closed down by the Government and everyone quarantined at home. While the Prime Minister claims that putting us under an effective state of house arrest is the only way to stop the
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com First published 22nd March 2020 The global COVID-19 crisis is deepening. Within 12 weeks of the new coronavirus being detected in workers at a live animal market in China, 100,000 people around the world had caught the disease. Twelve days later that had
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Dr Ron Haskins,a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute and former White House Presidential Advisor on welfare reform, has a long association with welfare policy research and development, including the most effective ways of reducing child poverty. Through modelling and analysis, he has concluded,
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com On December 31 last year, the Municipal Health Committee in the city of Wuhan – the capital of the Hubei province in central China – announced a small outbreak of an unknown type of viral pneumonia. It had affected 27 people associated with South China Seafood City,
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com The 2020 general election will be held on Saturday, September 19th. It will give New Zealanders the opportunity to vote, not only for those we want to govern the country for the next three years, but also on whether we want cannabis and euthanasia to
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. Following the terror attack in
