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2 Oct, 6 tweets, 1 min read
I’m not sure who needs to hear this but it is possible to have a deeply Christian faith and believe this compels you to put the needs of others ahead of your own, to not grasp for power or “freedom”, to not put others in danger during a global plague, to love the vulnerable
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1/ “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others” — Phil 2:3-4
2/ “You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to. Instead, he gave up his divine privileges” — Phil 2:5-7
3/ “Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a another…So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding” — Romans 14:13,19
4/ “Love your neighbor as yourself”- Mark 12:31
And yes, 🙂 I am a person of christian faith (Anglican tradition, only tradition that would have me, with all my ranting about child health & child poverty) AND I am intensely into science, epidemiology, and statistical modelling. Hello! I’m only a paradox to simple frameworks

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ECEs are opening bubbles of 10 in Level 3 for Auckland, and schools are tentatively set to open on October 18th. I'm mum to a school boy and an ECE boy, and have my community paediatrician and child epi hats on. How can this be safe? Okay, let's walk through it. /1
When children are infected with Covid-19, they fortunately typically experience a mild or asymptomatic illness. Hospitalisation of children can occur but, from Australian experience, this is thankfully uncommon. /2 abc.net.au/news/health/20…
But we still need to do ALL we can to not expose children to this virus, while we wait for vaccinations for children <12, as children with pre-existing medical conditions are at higher risk of severe illness, and longer lasting symptoms are still being researched. /3
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A few weeks ago I started drawing attention to Singapore's Covid-19 response as one NZ can learn from. S'pore has pop 5.7 million, 73 Covid-19 deaths, 83K cases. After reopening commenced on 19 Aug, cases rose exponentially. What should we be learning? /1
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Vaccination currently stands at 84% of the *population* has received 1 dose, 82% population has been fully vaccinated. Now, 5 weeks after reopening commenced, the Singapore government announced the need for increased restrictions. It *did not* lie down and scream "Freeeedom" /2
No, the Singapore government has (rightly) taken steps to protect it's population from Covid-19. The large majority of new cases (98%) have been mild or asymptomatic. This is thought due to the high vaccination rates. /3
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14 Sep
Look I appreciate the need to get overseas experts commenting on the NZ response on telly but (a) none are experts on NZ hospital capacity or population health inequities, (b) continuing elimination while we achieve high vax rates does NOT mean we aren’t thinking about the future
I mean, here’s an actual verified Johns Hopkins expert @AmeshAA whom I do respect but who comes across as ridiculous at points simply because he doesn’t understand our extremely limited hospital capacity, need for equity, or long term planning. tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-z…
If I were starting off a TV interview and speaking to a country that has done remarkably well with few resources and stretched healthcare, I would do the decent thing and say “Bravo NZ! Great you’re moving on vaccines now! Here’s some extra things to consider…”. Y’know. Tone.
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13 Sep
Kia Ora to the overseas folk. For those curious, NZ’s alert level 4 has managed to successfully reduce the R value of the delta outbreak from 6 to consistently <1. In 28 days we have stopped 955 chains of transmission. The lockdown has already lifted everywhere, except Auckland/1
Auckland remains in Level 4, where a handful of “mystery” cases mean we will stay the course. We have prevented hospital overwhelm, which modelling predicted would have occurred by now, had we not effected such a successful lockdown. So far we have had zero deaths from delta /2
We are vaccinating very fast. Some days this outbreak we have vaccinated 1.5% of the population in a single day. Thanks to new shipments of vaccines from overseas, we can keep up the pace. 68% of 12y+ population have had at least 1 dose, 35% fully vaccinated and forecasts high /3
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12 Sep
Delta is airborne, schools have been impacted in this current cluster. This morning I spoke with ⁦@SusieFergusonNZ on⁩ ⁦@radionz⁩ about the need to lift our game on ventilation in schools to make an end to damp, poorly ventilated classrooms /1 rnz.co.nz/national/progr…
2013 NZ study (Wang et al) has shown that often, levels of carbon dioxide in 3 of 6 NZ classrooms exceeded recommended levels (1000 ppm) for 50% of the school day. C02 levels here are a proxy for ventilation. As C02 levels rise, students may also feel headaches, sleepy /2
Not every child can mask, and emerging evidence suggests that improving ventilation maybe as effective as masking. So in looking to the future, and wanting to prevent covid closing schools, this needs to be a priority for investment. Our piece: blogs.otago.ac.nz/pubhealthexper…
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31 Aug
Another thread for the overseas people who are fascinated by New Zealand’s response to Covid-19, Kia ora. It is Day 14, and there already positive signs that we are flattening delta. Level 4 is indeed effective, new daily cases are suppressed. /1

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Genome sequencing has shown that we are dealing with a single outbreak of delta, which has been traced to an arrival from NSW in MIQ who tested positive 8 days before the first community case was detected. We know exactly when the outbreak started, it’s a short timeframe /2
After two weeks of national Level 4, wastewater testing showed that the virus was present in the community in Auckland and Wellington. Wellington’s cases are ring-fenced, so the government is already easing lockdown restrictions in all areas except for Auckland from tonight /3
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