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Not fully vaccinated is not unvacinated..so the stats are worse ..

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Wow good breakdown of the data in this report.

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Two dose people are still considered vaccinated in Canada. Ye they get to travel even though most of them are no longer technically vaccinate. Mandates remain in place as coercion to get people vaccinated. Situation dire in Canada. Completely incoherent and repugnant.

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Dr. Alexander, I'd love to interview you on my podcast! https://mickeyz.substack.com

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Typo?

"New Zealand, **alike** UK and Scotland///"

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An incorrect statement: "73% of deaths occurred in those vaccinated (fully and boosted)." That is a table not of all deaths, nor a table of deaths due to COVID-19, but of those deaths that occurred within 28 days of a positive COVID-19 test. Most of those deaths may have been incidental to the presence of the virus. Indeed, only 51 deaths so far have been determined as likely caused by COVID-19 but there is no vaccination status breakdown on those. You also haven't weighted the deaths by the population in each age group by vaccination status. (for example, almost all of those over 80 have been fully vaccinated but there are a significant number of deaths in the Not Fully Vaccinated category).

One wonders why you missed out the title of that table: "Age and vaccination status of deaths within 28 days of being reported as a case "

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So far, 51 deaths in NZ have been classified as occurring due to COVID-19. 25 deaths occurred before vaccinations started in NZ (so all of those were unvaccinated deaths). Of the remaining 26 deaths, the NZ health service have let me know that 13 were not fully vaccinated (so they lump together unvaccinated and partially vaccinated), 7 were fully vaccinated and 3 were boosted. Though I can't really calculate relative risks of COVID-19 deaths (because they didn't give me a time series of that breakdown) most of those deaths have occurred since well over half of NZers had been fully vaccinated so it's clear that the unvaccinated and partially vaccinated are well over represented in the data we have so far.

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Is there any data comparing adverse events and deaths for one dose vs. two doses vs. a booster (or two) and also comparing all this to TOTALLY unvaccinated. I think the "not fully vaccinated" category is a bit dicey. Seems like we need at least 4 categories...the control group compared to the 3 others.

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Vaxxed in New Zealand are dominant in cases, hospitalisations and deaths https://twitter.com/juliusmtoo/status/1517778471556026369?s=21&t=DQzlXiaZlRSZupS1jwerXA

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It’s a stunning number but is it that dramatic, in part, bc the oldest age group is the most vaccinated?

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