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Government Gets Away with It Because Our Media Are Inept

Government Gets Away with It Because Our Media Are Inept

I took one for the team so you wouldn’t have to. I watched Ryan Bridge interview the Prime Minister on Newshub Breakfast at about 7.45 on Tuesday morning (August 24). Covid has been a major worldwide news story since March last year. That would make it 18 months.

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Protocol for Re-Opening New Zealand Society

covidplanb.co.nz Introduction 18 months on from the world’s fearful response to the arrival of SARS-CoV-2, we provide an alternative to New Zealand’s elimination strategy to one of ‘living with covid-19’. We are now back in level four lockdown indefinitely with escalating PCR positive

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Crowne Plaza Passing Infection Audits Unbelievable

Crowne Plaza Passing Infection Audits Unbelievable

Confirmation that the Crowne Plaza passed all its infection control audits, including as recently in June, beggars belief, National’s Covid-19 spokesperson Chris Bishop says. MIQ officials before the Health Select Committee this afternoon confirmed the last infection control audit for the Crowne Plaza was in June this year

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Missed Opportunity for Govt to Increase Vaccine Uptake

Missed Opportunity for Govt to Increase Vaccine Uptake

The Government’s admission it isn’t using an obvious lever to increase uptake of the Covid-19 vaccine demonstrates its failure to recognise the need to ramp up our vaccine rollout, National’s Social Development and Employment spokesperson Louise Upston says.   “Social Development Minister Sepuloni admitted at Select Committee

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Israel PM’s National Plan to Fight Delta

Israel PM’s National Plan to Fight Delta

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett appealed to the public on his Facebook page and detailed in a press release the national plan to fight the Delta wave. Good evening. I would like to share with you our national plan to fight the Delta wave that is engulfing the world. I will

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Discrimination of the Day

Discrimination of the Day

No fishing at level 4, unless it’s Maori customary fishing. (Clearly, it is such a tricky virus it can tell the difference between Maori and Non-Maori). With your help Discrimination of the Day will become a regular segment on The BFD. A reader drew our attention to this

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Saline Cover-up a Scandal

Saline Cover-up a Scandal

David Seymour ACT Leader The Director-General of Health’s admission that the Ministry has known that five people may not have been fully vaccinated for weeks is completely unacceptable and leaves questions about whether this was a botched coverup. Radio NZ has revealed today that an investigation has begun

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What Would Have Been ‘Incredible News’, Chris

What Would Have Been ‘Incredible News’, Chris

David Seymour ACT Leader Eighty thousand vaccination doses in one day is good news. What would have been incredible news is if this rate was achieved, say, 100 days ago. That would have got the target 8 million doses done, and New Zealand might be in a very different situation.

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Morrison Takes on the Dictators at Home

Morrison Takes on the Dictators at Home

Yesterday, I challenged Australian PM Scott Morrison to take the lead in rescuing Australia from the clutches of little dictator premiers and public health bureaucrats. I doubt Morrison read my post, but, by a strange coincidence, he is finally finding something resembling a backbone. Perhaps sensing that public patience with

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What Does Full FDA Approval of a Vaccine Do If It’s Already Authorized for Emergency Use?

What Does Full FDA Approval of a Vaccine Do If It’s Already Authorized for Emergency Use?

Jennifer Girotto University of Connecticut Dr. Girotto is currently an Associate Clinical Professor of Pharmacy Practice at The University of Connecticut. Her focus areas of practice are on immunizations and pediatric infectious diseases. Thirty percent of unvaccinated American adults say they’re waiting for the COVID-19 vaccines currently authorized

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COVID Cases Are Rising in Highly Vaccinated Israel. But It Doesn’t Mean Australia Should Give up and ‘Live with’ the Virus

COVID Cases Are Rising in Highly Vaccinated Israel. But It Doesn’t Mean Australia Should Give up and ‘Live with’ the Virus

C Raina MacIntyre UNSW Professor Raina MacIntyre is NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Head of the Biosecurity Program at the Kirby Institute, and Professor of Global Biosecurity at UNSW. Israel has one of the highest COVID vaccination rates in the world, having fully vaccinated 78% of people 12 years and over.

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