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annademo's avatar

That epidemiologist (Janine) has rainbows in her photo. I'm not optimistic that she will produce a report that supports your interpretation of the data. More than likely, it will just regurgitate the government view (best vaccine EVAH!!).

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Terry Anderson's avatar

hi Steve,

I've seen three analyses of NZ data, one by Scoop McGoo, https://open.substack.com/pub/scoopsmcgoo/p/leaked-pay-per-dose-data-shows-so?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=14q8is another by Ben at USMortality , https://open.substack.com/pub/usmortality/p/new-zealands-all-cause-deaths-and?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=14q8is and henjin at https://open.substack.com/pub/stevekirsch/p/the-simplest-way-to-show-the-covid?r=14q8is&utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=67053913 I found an obvious error in the Scoop McGoo v.7 spreadsheets and pointed it out on your substack comments. henjin pointed out a second error, which I believe is correct also, in the link above. Ben did a good job of analyzing the Chris Johnson FOI data dump from NZ MOH. I believe henjin is the most thorough and needs to be taken seriously. Regarding the matter of who is among the unvaccinated, well I'm one of them; my wife also. To be counted as a potential member of the population in the HSU, you had to either nave a NHI number, or had to have visited a doctor at least once since 2018, I believe. There are many who were in neither category and therefore not counted in the potential vaccination population. I will dig further on this. Note that I challenged the MOH on their published figures which claimed that at one stage in May of 2022, the unjabbed were 15% of the covid hospitalized, but comprised only 3 % of the population. I used population data from Stats NZ and vaccination data from the MOH to show that the unjabbed actually made up 16 % of the population. They never challenged that figure and immediately stopped publishing the hospitalized % by vaccination status. Even to this day, world tracking of national vaccination rates shows NZ at around 83-84 % jabbed.

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