Quotes from Michael Baker: Professor Michael Baker was hesitant to characterise the so-called “Freedom NZ” protests as potential super-spreader events. But the University of Otago epidemiologist did say Covid transmission was likely occurring at them, and symbolically the protests were a corrosive form of “antisocial behaviour”. But Baker
Worzel As a young teen, I drank a few glasses of what turned out to be a knockout punch. It pays to make sure you know what you’re putting into your body before you do so. It was clear from the start of what is known as ‘The Covid
Tim Ordei Information Opinion As far as my political leanings go… I have no idea – I think I’m left, but I tend to disagree with everyone. I guess in the current political climate I would probably describe myself as feeling more comfortable with those on the right. But only
These Midwives would rather quit their jobs than get vaccinated against COVID-19 and have urged the Government to rethink its vaccine mandate for the health workforce. Ten of Taranaki District Health Board’s 63 registered midwives have said they won’t be getting vaccinated against the deadly disease, effectively
With the looming ‘no jab, no job’ vaccine policy for the education and health sectors, the process to issue vaccination exemption certificates is still non-existent – and doctors are being asked to keep out of it. On Friday the 15th of October, Waitemata DHB issued a message via Medinz stating
Leor Zmigrod University of Cambridge Leor Zmigrod’s research aims to combine experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience to study the psychological processes that underlie ideology adherence and group identity formation. It is a little-known fact that humans have not one but two immune systems. The first, the biophysical immune
Marta Rychert Chris Wilkins Vinuli Withanarachchie Massey University Dr Marta Rychert is a Senior Researcher at Massey University with expertise in drug policy, health law and public health. Associate Professor Chris Wilkins is the leader of the drug research team at SHORE & Whariki Research Centre, Massey University, and has
Chris Hipkins If you haven’t yet made plans for Super Saturday, there’s still time to get involved (even if you’ve had your two shots!) and help New Zealand get vaccinated. If you missed the news, tomorrow’s Super Saturday event is taking place right around the country
Intensive care unit occupancy rates in district health board areas with large Maori populations were at capacity even before Covid and the current Delta outbreak, says National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti. This is yet more evidence of very slim ICU margins that we have at the moment and
To a hammer, everything is a nail. To a gimlet-eyed “anti-racist”, everything is “racist”. The racism-obsessive, as Theodore Dalrymple has written, “looks at the world through race-tinted spectacles, interprets every event or social phenomenon as a manifestation of racism either implicit or explicit, and in general
Ken Orr Spokesperson Right to Life righttolife.org.nz Right to Life defends the duty of midwives to be the protector of the lives of unborn children and their mothers. For thousands of years civilisation has upheld the duty of midwives to be the guardian of the womb and the
