Jacinda Ardern Prime Minister This week, we announced the next steps in our COVID-19 vaccination rollout. In case you missed the news, I wanted to send you a quick update on what it means for you and your family. The COVID vaccine rollout is the largest and most complex
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righttolife.org.uk An investigation has found that medics gave ‘do not resuscitate’ (DNAR) orders to people with mental illness and learning disabilities throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The notices stop doctors attempting cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to restart a patient’s heart. In March 2020, NHS England wrote to medics
Studying 20th century history at university, I often wondered what it must be like to watch everything around you slide into the “Dark Valley” of totalitarianism. I wonder no more. Because I’m living it. Of course, it’s not on the scale of a Chinese in 1949 watching the
Dear Editor You really do have to wonder at the inability of journalists and opposition MPs to ask questions of this government. Here’s an example: Friday a week ago during Checkpoint with Lisa Owen on RNZ, Ashleigh Bloomfield said Covid-19 vaccinations were now up to 50,000 a
David Seymour ACT Leader The Prime Minister has her priorities completely warped if she thinks being last in the developed world for the vaccine rollout is pleasing. According to ‘Our World in Data’, New Zealand has fewer vaccinations per person than any other OECD country. In response to that, Jacinda
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David Seymour ACT Leader This Government’s vaccine rollout is reminiscent of a losing test cricket team desperately trying to increase the run rate as the days go by. The Government is assuring us that we’ll all be vaccinated by the end of the year but we’re currently
New Zealanders were promised that they would be at the ‘front of the queue’ but the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out continues to be behind schedule and poorly communicated, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “This was meant to be the ‘Year of the Vaccine’ but just
Allen Rodrigo University of Auckland For almost 20 years, Allen Rodrigo worked on the molecular evolution of viruses, including HIV and Hepatitis B. His lab was involved in the development of computational methods for analysing the evolutionary history of viruses, including the timing of virus origins. He has been the
David Seymour ACT Leader After saying we would be at the front of the queue, New Zealand is now officially last in the OECD for the vaccine rollout. According to ‘Our World in Data’, New Zealand has fewer vaccinations per person than any other country. DHBs have now been told
Chief Science Adviser to the office of the PM, Professor Dame Juliette Gerard was reappointed last week for another three year term. Her first foray into the media was last weekend. Gerard was pleased about the reappointment, stating that the prime minister must be happy with her performance, before being
The cloud of circumstantial evidence around the “lab-leak” theory refuses to dissipate – and just got darker. From the beginning of the pandemic, there were accusations that the virus causing COVID-19 resulted from a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. That directly contradicted official claims that the
