News from Aotearoa/New Zealand and the Pacific Islands

[Hutan]

We've moved discussion of that currently recruiting Long Covid and ME/CFS immunology study to the Dysimmune/Anna Brooks thread.

The discussion includes contact details, links through to the participant information sheet and some compliments about the participant information sheet.

 

[Chandelier]

The Press

www.thepress.co.nz

(Paywalled)

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New Zealand entering ninth wave of Covid, precautions urged as winter illnesses approach​

New Zealand is heading into its ninth wave of Covid-19, with data showing 184 hospitalisations and 19 deaths reported in the past week, according to public health expert Michael Baker.​

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Baker said the virus likely caused more harm than influenza when factoring in long Covid cases.​

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“Hundreds of people will be getting infected every week and risking long Covid,” he said. “Based on international evidence, it's quite correct to assume that scores of people will be getting quite severely impaired every week from this infection.”​

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New Zealand currently had no surveillance system for long Covid.​

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“There are still almost 20 people a week dying from this infection. So that's going to translate into a thousand people a year dying from this infection.”​

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