Vaccination of 12-16 year olds approved
Virginia Crawford made this Official Information request to Ministry of Health
Response to this request is long overdue. By law Ministry of Health should have responded by now (details and exceptions). The requester can complain to the Ombudsman.
From: Virginia Crawford
Dear Ministry of Health,
Given that the possibility of any 12-17 year old dying (or even becoming seriously ill) from Covid-19 is essentially ZERO, please explain the rationale for approving Cominarty for this age group. It has been suggested that there is a possibility of asymptomatic transmission of the virus to older people, but there is absolutely no conclusive evidence of this.
Yours faithfully,
Virginia Crawford
From: Virginia Crawford
Dear Ministry of Health,
By law, the Ministry should have responded by August 03, 2021. This issue needs to be addressed urgently now.
Yours faithfully,
Virginia Crawford
From: OIA Requests
Kia ora Virginia,
Could you please advise what request you are referring to?
Ngā mihi
OIA Services
Government Services
Office of the Director-General
Ministry of Health
E: [email address]
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From: Virginia Crawford <[FOI #15982 email]>
Sent: Monday, 16 August 2021 12:35
To: OIA Requests <[email address]>
Subject: Re: Official Information request - Vaccination of 12-16 year olds
approved
Dear Ministry of Health,
By law, the Ministry should have responded by August 03, 2021. This issue
needs to be addressed urgently now.
Yours faithfully,
Virginia Crawford
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From: Virginia Crawford
Dear OIA Requests,
I am referring to the request dated July 6th - please see top of page - where I stated that I wished to know by what rationale, the Ministry has decided that 12-16 year old CHILDREN should be vaccinated.
Yours sincerely,
Virginia Crawford
From: OIA Requests
Kia ora Virginia,
Under the Official Information Act, we are unable to provide rationale as
this is not a request for official information. This will be passed on to
the relevant team for a response.
You can expect a response from the team in due course.
Ngā mihi
OIA Services
Government Services
Office of the Director-General
Ministry of Health
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From: Virginia Crawford <[FOI #15982 email]>
Sent: Monday, 16 August 2021 14:21
To: OIA Requests <[email address]>
Subject: Re: Official Information request - Vaccination of 12-16 year olds
approved
Dear OIA Requests,
I am referring to the request dated July 6th - please see top of page -
where I stated that I wished to know by what rationale, the Ministry has
decided that 12-16 year old CHILDREN should be vaccinated.
Yours sincerely,
Virginia Crawford
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Zee Monsalve left an annotation ()
I too would like to see what sort of 'Science' the Government has based their decision to vaccinate our children on. Given the ethical importance of gaining informed consent before including young people as test subjects for the purposes of medical experimentation, surely it is in the public interest for Virginia's request to be answered promptly?
From: COVID-19 Vaccine
Kia ora Virginia,
Please find attached response to your email of 16 August 2021.
Thank you,
COVID-19 Vaccination and Immunisation Programme
Ministry of Health
| http: //www.health.govt.nz
133 Molesworth Street, Wellington
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Hi Virginia,
I am really interested in seeing this question answered too. I found the initial reply surprising and the second no better. This article on the broken OIA system states that any request is valid:
"Another minister’s office apparently at one point decided that the OIA only applied to formal documents and excluded emails. Not only are emails included under the act, but so is official information of all kinds, right down to people’s own recollections of events."
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/16-08-...
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