Mike: David Clark ah couldn’t tell me before how many test kits are in this country, can you? Jacinda: We have 30,000 swabs as part of our testing ah… capacity… for up to 1,500 a day and of course as you can imagine the whole world, Mike,
Paula Bennett is having a massive sook about not being included in the Government’s Covid-19 outbreak discussions. National deputy leader Paula Bennett is firing back at criticism about Simon Bridges‘ and the party’s response to the coronavirus outbreak. It’s a hard time but the Opposition is
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This unbelievable campaign ran in Italy mid-February. Northern Italy is now the major centre of COVID-19 outbreak in the West. If you have a great Youtube or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nz
Italy has become the poster child for COVID-19 in the West for all the wrong reasons. Outside of China, it has the world’s highest number of infections. Horror stories are emerging of a health system cracking under the strain and the whole country is under unprecedented lockdown. There
Groucho Marx famously said, “politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies”. We’ve seen this recently in panicked political responses to disasters, real and imagined, which actually cause more harm than that which they’re supposedly remedying. Fukushima,
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Read this thread. The maths will be the same for New Zealand: The Imperial College team plugged infection and death rates from China/Korea/Italy into epidemic modeling software and ran a simulation: what happens if the US does absolutely nothing — if we treat COVID-19 like the flu, go
The Government has finally decided to close our borders to all but citizens and permanent residents. They have finally done what they should have done with the original border controls less than a week ago: New Zealand is closing its borders to everyone but citizens and permanent residents in an
Can you take a hint? The Prime Minister is calling on New Zealanders to prepare to work from home and prepare to stop non-essential travel, as authorities look to stem the spread of coronavirus COVID-19. Newshub Today’s face of the day Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is hinting
This podcast is the first of two and it is more about trying to not panic. Amesh is an infectious disease specialist and the main thing I took from this is that COVID-19 is more infectious than the flu. The podcast is a bit dated as it is pre-
Amidst all the doom and panic-mongering over the Wuhan Flu, it’s good to be able to report that there are some hopeful signs. Although a cure or vaccine is probably at least months away, scientists are already reporting progress. There are also reported signs that the virus may
While the world anxiously waits for a fully tested vaccine to guard against Covid-19, scientists have been experimenting with Chloroquine to treat and prevent Covid-19. We lag behind Europe, still in the throes of the disease, but South Korea and China have had significantly more exposure and time
Regina Scheyvens Massey University New Zealand’s border restrictions will come with significant job and business losses in the tourism sector, both at home and in the Pacific. But the new travel rules are absolutely necessary to protect the health of New Zealanders and people right across Pacific Islands, because
Ina Skosana The Conversation The global crisis triggered by the spread of the new coronavirus disease, COVID-19, continues to take fresh and dramatic turns, causing havoc in dozens of countries around the world. Stock markets remain volatile, having recording historic collapses in share prices. As the disease continued to
