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-----Original Message-----
From: ASE <[FOI #17760 email]>
Sent: Monday, 29 November 2021 3:47 pm
To: OIA Requests <[email address]>
Subject: Official Information request - COVID-19 inoculations, safety,
efficacy, necessity

 

Dear Ministry of Health,

 

This request extends to all persons, boards, councils, committees,
subcommittees, organisations, bodies, or individuals advising on such
matters, or otherwise exerting influence in any capacity. If this request
relates to information that you have reason to believe may be held by any
other persons or bodies, I trust that you will forward this request to
them and advise accordingly.

 

Does The Ministry of Health posses any long-term safety data for any
COVID-19 inoculations?

 

Does The Ministry of Health posses any long-term efficacy data for any
COVID-19 inoculations?

 

What claims or disclaimers have been made by manufacturers and/or their
representatives of COVID-19 inoculations' efficacy in regards to
prevention of infection, transmission, "long-COVID", or death?

 

What claims have been made by manufacturers and/or their representatives
of COVID-19 inoculations in regards to quantifying any claimed forms of
efficacy? How are such claims presented or interpreted in terms of
"absolute risk reduction"? How are such claims presented or interpreted in
terms of "number needed to vaccinate to prevent one infection"?

 

What claims or disclaimers have been made by manufacturers and/or their
representatives regarding COVID-19 inoculations' unknown risks? What
additional unknown risks have been identified by The Ministry of Health?
​How has The Ministry of Health assessed these unknown risks? How has The
Ministry of Health's policies and positions accounted for, and hedged
against, these unknown risks? Are such assessments, positions, and
policies supported by evidence-based risk/benefit and cost/benefit
analyses? Or, are such assessments, positions, and policies supported by
something other than evidence-based risk/benefit and cost/benefit
analyses?

​

What claims or disclaimers have been made by manufacturers and/or their
representatives regarding COVID-19 inoculations' duration of efficacy?

 

What position does The Ministry of Health hold regarding research
indicating that duration of efficacy of COVID-19 inoculations is on the
scale of months? How has that position changed over time, and based on
what information? What position does The Ministry of Health hold regarding
research indicating that any efficacy of COVID-19 inoculations fades over
the course of months, then becomes "negative efficacy", leaving people
more vulnerable to poor outcomes, compared to never having been
inoculated? If The Ministry of Health is not keeping abreast of such
research, then whose role is it to ensure that New Zealand is using the
best and most current data to make evidence-based decisions that best
serve public health goals, as stated and generally understood?

 

What position does The Ministry of Health hold regarding research
indicating that increased exposure to COVID-19 inoculations (eg via
booster shots) may increase the incidence, rate of incidence, and/or
severity of adverse reactions? If The Ministry of Health is not keeping
abreast of such research, then whose role is it to ensure that New Zealand
is using the best and most current data to make evidence-based decisions
that best serve public health goals, as stated and generally understood?

 

What claims or disclaimers have been made by manufacturers and/or their
representatives of COVID-19 inoculations in regards to such inoculations
selecting for more vaccine-evasive and/or more pathogenic viral mutations?

 

What position does The Ministry of Health hold regarding
non-sterilising/non-neutralising "leaky vaccines" (such as currently
available COVID-19 inoculations) selecting for more vaccine-evasive and/or
more pathogenic viral mutations? What balance of evidence, both for
against such a position, has been reviewed by The Ministry of Health? If
this issue has not been reviewed by The Ministry of Health, why not? If
The Ministry of Health is not keeping abreast of such research, then whose
role is it to ensure that New Zealand is using the best and most current
data to make evidence-based decisions that best serve public health goals,
as stated and generally understood?

 

What position does The Ministry of Health hold regarding innate immunity
and naturally acquired immunity to COVID-19? What balance of evidence,
both for and against, has formed such a position? If this issue has not
been reviewed by The Ministry of Health, why not? If The Ministry of
Health is not keeping abreast of such research, then whose role is it to
ensure that New Zealand is using the best and most current data to make
evidence-based decisions that best serve public health goals, as stated
and generally understood?

 

What New Zealand data is The Ministry of Health monitoring, to ensure that
COVID-19 inoculations are "safe and effective" in New Zealand, as claimed?
eg, is The Ministry of Health monitoring data relating to age stratified
all-cause mortality on the basis of inoculation status? Is The Ministry of
Health monitoring data relating to age-stratified diagnoses and deaths
relating to myocarditis, pericarditis, heart attacks, strokes, excess
deaths, sudden deaths, thrombocytopenia, embolisms, thromboses, or other
clotting disorders, pregnancies and miscarriages, and other adverse
reactions of concern or known to be associated with COVID-19 inoculations,
and correlating such data to inoculation status? If this type of data is
being monitored, I would very much like to see it. If this type of data is
not being monitored by The Ministry of Health, then why is this type of
data is not being monitored? Whose role is it to monitor such data? How
can The Ministry of Health confidently ensure the effectiveness of public
health policies in New Zealand if The Ministry of Health is not
continuously monitoring the most relevant and current data? If this type
of data is not being monitored, what basis is there for asserting that
COVID-19 inoculations are safe and effective in New Zealand?

 

What balance of evidence, both for and against, supports policies of
classification, segregation, and discrimination of people on the basis of
COVID-19 inoculations (eg a "Vaccine Pass")? What evidence-based
risk/benefit and cost/benefit analyses support such polices? Are such
policies supported by evidence-based risk/benefit and cost/benefit
analyses? Or, are such policies supported by something other than
evidence-based risk/benefit and cost/benefit analyses?

 

What balance of evidence, both for and against, supports the position that
"When everyone is vaccinated, this helps to end the pandemic."? -
[2]https://scanmail.trustwave.com/?c=15517&...
- How does such evidence account for limited efficacy, limited duration of
efficacy, absence of long-term safety and efficacy data, and unknown
risks? How does such evidence account for countries which have experienced
their worst outbreaks after record-breaking levels of inoculations? Are
such positions supported by evidence-based risk/benefit and cost/benefit
analyses? Or, are such positions supported by something other than
evidence-based risk/benefit and cost/benefit analyses?

 

What balance of evidence, both for and against, supports policies of
coercion and other undue pressures for people to have COVID-19
inoculations? What evidence-based risk/benefit and cost/benefit analyses
support such polices? Are such policies supported by evidence-based
risk/benefit and cost/benefit analyses? Or, are such policies supported by
something other than evidence-based risk/benefit and cost/benefit
analyses?

 

What balance of evidence, both for and against, supports a position that
safety, efficacy, and necessity of COVID-19 inoculations preempt/preclude
certain human rights, including rights to honest and fully informed
consent to medical treatment, and human rights to refuse medical treatment
with or without reason, including reasons of religious or ethical belief?
Are such policies supported by evidence-based risk/benefit and
cost/benefit analyses? Or, are such policies supported by something other
than evidence-based risk/benefit and cost/benefit analyses?

 

What contingency plans have been considered, if COVID-19 inoculations may
prove to be unsafe, ineffective, unnecessary, and/or otherwise harmful to
public health? If such contingency plans have not been considered, why
not?

 

Is The Ministry of Health aware of any COVID-19 treatment studies
demonstrating that Ivermectin, as a primary treatment, is unsafe or
ineffective, when used (1) in clinically relevant doses and (2) as an
early treatment? If The Ministry of Health is not keeping abreast of such
research, then whose role is it to ensure that New Zealand is using the
best and most current data to make evidence-based decisions regarding
safe, effective, readily available, and cost effective COVID-19 treatments
that best serve public health goals, as stated and generally understood?

 

Thank you,

ASE 202111290

 

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