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Michael J. Plank

New Zealand
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Equity and the response to Covid 19 - Preparing for the next pandemic in Aotearoa New Zealand

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By Nigel French, Howard Maxwell, Michael J. Plank
| the-microbiologist.com
Aotearoa New Zealand enacted an effective response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The government approach to the first few cases in March 2020 was to implement a swift ‘go hard and go early’ response. Borders were closed to non-residents, lockdowns were enforced, and infection was effectively eliminated within 76 days of the first locally acquired case.
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NZ’s 9th COVID-19 wave: why infections are rising – and how booster shots still help

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By Michael J. Plank
| Daily Bulletin AU
Six years after COVID-19 first reached New Zealand, the country is experiencing its ninth wave of infections. But the virus we are living with today behaves very differently from the one that caused the global emergency in 2020–22. Large outbreaks can still occur, but thanks to widespread immunity built through vaccination and infection, COVID now behaves more like other respiratory viruses that circulate each year in our communities.
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NZ’s 9th COVID-19 wave: why infections are rising – and how booster shots still help

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By Michael J. Plank
| Inkl
Large outbreaks can still occur, but thanks to widespread immunity built through vaccination and infection, COVID now behaves more like other respiratory viruses that circulate each year in our communities. Hospital admissions are currently around half the level seen during most of last winter, which itself was below earlier waves. Wastewater monitoring – which tracks fragments of the virus shed into sewage – similarly points to a longer-term year-on-year decline in COVID activity.
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