The Prime Minister has announced extra 250,000 doses of vaccine will arrive tomorrow

Also, 'infectious in the community' may not be the telling thing if they're confident that have all the LOIs and a high chance of contacting all people who may have been exposed and confirming they are isolating. 

I've been unable to get a required cancer screen, while Jacinda harps on about the tragic death of a single 91 year old from covid. 

Meanwhile 650 people die a week in New Zealand from other causes.

Madness.

What pivot are you referring to?

When was this? Is this double vaxed?

I would guess comes around 60-80% percent effectiveness (similar to Israel's). I would think we can use the "Pacific Peoples" vaccination rate of 29% but then we have to account for the age demographics (cases and hospitalisation) which is very young for where we are up to with vaccinations. The majority of double vaxed are still in group 3. If the vast majority of these have only have their first shot well these are brilliant numbers.

Edit: don't read this there are better numbers from the article below.

There is no RSV vaccine. WTF are you on about?

ah yeah ... RSV ... what happened there again?

New Zealand children falling ill in high numbers due to Covid ‘immunity debt’ | New Zealand | The Guardian

"New Zealand hospitals are experiencing the payoff of “immunity debt” created by Covid-19 lockdowns, with wards flooded by babies with a potentially-deadly respiratory virus, doctors have warned.

Wellington has 46 children currently hospitalised for respiratory illnesses including respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. A number are infants, and many are on oxygen. Other hospitals are also experiencing a rise in cases that are straining their resources – with some delaying surgeries or converting playrooms into clinical space.  RSV is a common respiratory illness. In adults, it generally only produces very mild symptoms – but it can make young children extremely ill, or even be fatal. The size and seriousness of New Zealand’s outbreak is likely being fed by what some paediatric doctors have called an “immunity debt” – where people don’t develop immunity to other viruses suppressed by Covid lockdowns, causing cases to explode down the line."

Solve it - Stop spreading misinformation on RSV - there is no vaccine.  

There is no vaccine against RSV. However, it remains important to get immunised for other vaccine preventable illnesses such as pertussis (whooping cough).

https://www.health.govt.nz/your-health/conditions-and-treatments/diseas…

My mistake. Was thinking of rotovirus

Did they have a press conference specifically for the RSV Outbreak? Can't remember Jacinda fronting in an emergency stand up...

sorry  but mainly patsy questions from teh media -  who if they ask a real one get dismissed with a  thats not my understanding a toss of the head and a move across the room to a more friendly journalist ---and a completely innafectual opposition more interested in starting a race war  or something else than actually asking constructive and challenging questions -- and now with the 1pm party political broadcast back   no air time

Are you paid by the hour or by the number of posts defending this government? Seems to me that nobody posting here can be critical of anything related to covid, the government or both combined, without you going to extraordinary lengths to reply and defend this government’s actions or strategy.

If a politician didn't play to their strengths I imagine they would get criticized for that too. I was watching an old YouTube video earlier today and they were talking about President Ford and said that he was not a man of the times, in fact he seemed a century out of place. It made me think that to be a leader you need to be 'of the times' and a 'communications' person is obviously what the people want right now.

She does what she is told and reads what she is given. 

Would you rather know this now or when you are lying on a bed gasping for air?

Given the government is spending money freely, perhaps the chronic  lack of ICU beds should be addressed first .

It is being addressed. The problem is you need trained medical staff to monitor and operate each ICU bed, and you can't just buy them from a medical device manufacturer.

Of course decisions will be made on purely medical criteria without any reference to the merits of any moral considerations as they always have been.  The point is that sadly the prognosis for un vaccinated people is far more poor and scarce resources will be allocated where there is the greatest probability of success.

24.56 %, or 14 out of 57 comments. Perhaps trolling should be renamed Lanthaniding. 

Whether, left right or centre the fact is that the people of New Zealand have been sufficiently compliant, sensible and effective at making the lockdown work. As in Sydney it looks like it just took one Delta identity to come through the border.  If New Zealanders had behaved in the manner of Sydneysiders, regardless of the relatively less stringent lockdown over there, ie beaches, parks and sports etc not to mention protests, New Zealand may now be much the same as Victoria if not NSW.  The fact is when Delta arrived far too many New Zealanders were left unprotected by vaccination. This government owes the people of New Zealand quite some gratitude for their application and tolerance, which in effect, so far that is, has let them off the hook.

Depends on your definition of "let everyone who wants to, get vaccinated".

For example a lot of people simply don't have good transportation options. They may want the vaccine, but have no way to access it given the resources available at their disposal.

This would suggest that some sort of mobile vaccination service may be required, if the government is really dead-set on "as many people as possible" getting the vaccination. I think it's likely that they will in fact have mobile vaccination services early next year, at least in the main cities.

I will also be waiting 12 weeks for maximum immunity for myself and my unborn kiddo.

I also only got my first vaccination a week or so ago because that's when I got out of my first trimester.

Consider myself pretty lucky to have this option available to me thanks to nz's elimination policy.

If all hell breaks loose before the end of November I will consider getting my second shot sooner.