[quoted] Scott3:

Health services must now record people's details, but a Chinese wall will protect this information from immigration officials:

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A Huawei router, you mean? ;)

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Northland opening vaccinations to over 50's ahead of the rest of the country, with walk in's, and without online bookings etc went bad as predicted by many on here.  

They got overwhelmed with demand. Got lots of media coverage that they were turning away people out of region.

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Which fairly clearly shows that the "lack of demand" in Northland is not really a thing.

 

It has come to the media's attention that a lot of border workers (i.e. contractors on ports, airline ground staff) are not covered in the border worker vaccination order, and a decent chunk are yet to be vaccinated:

 

Define "border worker". The example I saw on TV was an electrician? contractor who had worked in an MIQ hotel once in the past, and *might* work there sometime in the future. There will be a large number of these increasingly tenuous connections to the border. Whilst it would be a good idea to vaccinate them before their next visit, (a) there's a good chance that will happen anyway, and (b) their last visit occurred without them becoming infected, so their next visit can be handled the same way.

 

[quoted] sbiddle:

 

The fact the MoH now say the Papatoetoe High student was the initial source and not the mother working in the airline laundry is quite significant, and the fact the MoH now think the most leading hypothesis was 7 weeks of undetected spread back to the genomic link which was a MIQ case in December is quite extraordinary.

 

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Interesting. Would mean a chain of transmission 3 - 8 people long, each of whom all transmission other than a single one resulted in the cluster burning out. Until it hit the school that is...

 

Yeah... I don't see that as credible. R0 for the disease is 5.7, so three, let alone 8, people each asymptomatic and infecting only 1 other person, becomes hugely improbable (1 chance in a million, perhaps?); all of them would need to be super-NON-spreaders. Think how fast covid spread in early 2020. It seems much more likely that the mother did get it first, although perhaps not at the time/place where suspected. Whilst the genome varies with time and location, it's entirely possible that the same genome is still in circulation 7 weeks later. But perhaps MoH eliminated all the other possibilities...“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” - Sherlock Home