First published at 04:47 UTC on April 2nd, 2022.
On the 31st March 2022 something important happened regarding New Zealand hospitalisation rates. This video updates who's getting Covid and who isn't, and shares hot news about hospitalisation rates that only became apparent yesterday.
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On the 31st March 2022 something important happened regarding New Zealand hospitalisation rates. This video updates who's getting Covid and who isn't, and shares hot news about hospitalisation rates that only became apparent yesterday.
Notes:
1. It has been pointed out that my '0-5 years' figure should have been '0-4 years'. I apologise for this error. However it makes no difference to the sums as the error is automatically corrected for in the 'population difference' figure.
2. You may have noticed my hospitalisation graph is similar to RNZ's 'Estimated variant prevalence in New Zealand' graph (found low down on this page: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/450874/covid-19-data-visualisations-nz-in-numbers). Please compare the RNZ graph with the hold-slide for this video (which I have just uploaded). As with my graph, their graph puts 'partially vaccinated' above 'unvaccinated' (which is significant), but 'fully vaccinated' and 'boosted' below 'unvaccinated' which is different. The most likely reason for the difference is the RNZ graph does not include the 300,000 or so 'unvaccinated 0-4 year olds' or some 70,000 'unvaccinated people missing from MoH data'.
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