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Rod Jackson: Why New Zealand’s response to the covid pandemic was proportionate

April 23, 2022

COMMENTARY: By Professor Rod Jackson In a recent article (Weekend Herald, April 16) John Roughan wrote that the covid-19 pandemic has been an anticlimax in Aotearoa New Zealand. Surprisingly, he acknowledges covid-19 has killed about 25 million people worldwide, so hopefully he was referring to New Zealand’s 600 deaths. He goes on to ask how ... <a title="Rod Jackson: Why New Zealand’s response to the covid pandemic was proportionate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/23/rod-jackson-why-new-zealands-response-to-the-covid-pandemic-was-proportionate/" aria-label="Read more about Rod Jackson: Why New Zealand’s response to the covid pandemic was proportionate">Read more</a>

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Otago University covid-19 experts copping abuse from anti-vaxxers

January 7, 2022

By Hamish MacLean in Dunedin University of Otago covid-19 experts are not immune to the increasingly vitriolic attacks dished out to scientists commenting on New Zealand’s pandemic response. Among a litany of attacks University of Otago epidemiologist Professor Michael Baker has endured over the course of the pandemic, at the start of this week a ... <a title="Otago University covid-19 experts copping abuse from anti-vaxxers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/07/otago-university-covid-19-experts-copping-abuse-from-anti-vaxxers/" aria-label="Read more about Otago University covid-19 experts copping abuse from anti-vaxxers">Read more</a>