COVID-19

Expert Reactions | Published: 21 December 2021

New frontiers in the Covid-19 vaccine rollout are opening up – vaccinating 5-11 year olds, and giving booster doses to […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 20 December 2021

A 26-year-old man who died after his Covid-19 vaccine suffered myocarditis, a rare side effect of the jab, according to […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 16 December 202116 December 2021

Medsafe has provisionally approved the paediatric version of the Pfizer vaccine for tamariki aged 5 to 11 years old. The approval […]

Expert Q&A | Published: 16 December 202117 December 2021

The WHO has warned the Omicron Covid-19 variant is spreading at an “unprecedented rate” after being reported in 77 countries. Each […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 14 December 2021

Will the nation’s Covid-19 testing be able to keep up with Aucklanders leaving the city tomorrow, and much of the […]

In the News | Published: 10 December 202110 December 2021

“Delta has very quickly become a Māori pandemic,” according to Simon Royal of the National Hauora Coalition. The Waitangi Tribunal […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 09 December 202109 December 2021

Preliminary lab results from Pfizer/BioNTech suggest a third booster dose of their mRNA vaccine may be able to stop the […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 08 December 202108 December 2021

Early lab results from a small South African study suggest the Omicron variant may be able to bypass some of […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 08 December 2021

The country is preparing for another major shift in how it manages COVID-19, with Auckland able to interact with the […]