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"Opt out" option can held reduce vaccine inertia
The Prime Minister has recently laid out some plans for opening New Zealand’s borders.
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July 2021

Why we could not just "trust the science" when it came to Covid-19
The science behind Covid-19 must include a host of others besides just epidemiology.
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Hard but not early: Separating facts from fiction about New Zealand’s Covid-19 response
New Zealand's stringent approach was hard but not early and has come at the cost of nearly 2 million life years or the equivalent of more than 45,000…
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New proposed NZ hate speech law further proof of this government's authoritarian intent
There is understandable unease with the proposed new hate speech law.
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June 2021

The government’s zero Covid stance and its future implications
The on-going crisis over the Covid-positive person who visited Wellington from Sydney raises questions about the government’s zero Covid stance.
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Why would China leak Covid-19?
There is increasing chatter in the Western press that Covid-19 escaped from a lab in Wuhan.
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A lesson for our Govt: Inviting the next Sergey Brin to build the next Google
When it comes to something like the budget, everyone has an opinion.
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May 2021

The NYT article about India's true death count
The New York Times is reporting that India’s true death toll from Covid-19 is possibly many multiples higher.
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Putting Covid-19 in India in perspective
Among the many casualties of the Covid-19 pandemic is the complete loss of objectivity and any sense of proportion.
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April 2021

Quantitative easing and inflationary pressures
A recent report in the Herald suggests that inflationary pressures are beginning to appear with a small increase in the Consumer Price Index for the…
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Travel Bans and unconscious bias
In the aftermath of New Zealand banning flights from India, I have been thinking a lot about unconscious bias.
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Returnees from India are the latest casualty of outdated government thinking
This is a joint article with my collaborator Simon Thorley of the University of Auckland Medical School. Simon's twitter handle is @simonthornley30 if…
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