Ethnicity/Race/Age of Males: Adverse events COVID-19 vs COVID-19 Vaccine
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From: Jonty Piers
Dear Ministry of Health,
1. How many people with no co-morbidities have died due to a primary diagnosis of covid 19 in 2020, 2021 and 2022. Please supply a breakdown of data by age group and year of death
2. Numbers of emergency presentations for inflammatory heart disease (pericarditis and myocarditis) in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022.
3. Please provide the risk comparison of young males (under 30) developing serious health events from COVID-19 (coronavirus) vs developing serious health events from receiving the COVID-19 Vaccines (Pfizer etc). Please provide a baseline figure, not a smokescreen of 5% vs 8% gobbidy goop. I studied critical reasoning and semantics at University so I am no stranger to the clever use of words and statistics to provide a vague conclusion.
These statistics shouldn't be hard to find unless we are living in 1984 or something.
I lost my job because of your health recommendations being a young male. As I pay taxes, (and hence yours), I am owed an answer as per the social contract.
Please supply the data by ethnicity and age group for each year. For example, NZ European who are are Irish may have a higher rate compared to an Italian or Polish person in NZ, I mean their DNA is different. Thus, isn't the class grouping 'Other/European' inaccuate and giving a false representation for all european people, even though, lets say more celtic people or say, scandanavian people who more at risk. Compared to the grouping Maori, which is very specfic even though they are pacific islanders.
Yours faithfully,
C J
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From: Jonty Piers <[FOI #21532 email]>
Sent: Sunday, 8 January 2023 11:19
To: OIA Requests <[email address]>
Subject: Official Information request - Ethnicity/Race/Age of Males:
Adverse events COVID-19 vs COVID-19 Vaccine
Dear Ministry of Health,
1. How many people with no co-morbidities have died due to a primary
diagnosis of covid 19 in 2020, 2021 and 2022. Please supply a breakdown of
data by age group and year of death
2. Numbers of emergency presentations for inflammatory heart disease
(pericarditis and myocarditis) in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022.
3. Please provide the risk comparison of young males (under 30) developing
serious health events from COVID-19 (coronavirus) vs developing serious
health events from receiving the COVID-19 Vaccines (Pfizer etc). Please
provide a baseline figure, not a smokescreen of 5% vs 8% gobbidy goop. I
studied critical reasoning and semantics at University so I am no stranger
to the clever use of words and statistics to provide a vague conclusion.
These statistics shouldn't be hard to find unless we are living in 1984 or
something.
I lost my job because of your health recommendations being a young male.
As I pay taxes, (and hence yours), I am owed an answer as per the social
contract.
Please supply the data by ethnicity and age group for each year. For
example, NZ European who are are Irish may have a higher rate compared to
an Italian or Polish person in NZ, I mean their DNA is different. Thus,
isn't the class grouping 'Other/European' inaccuate and giving a false
representation for all european people, even though, lets say more celtic
people or say, scandanavian people who more at risk. Compared to the
grouping Maori, which is very specfic even though they are pacific
islanders.
Yours faithfully,
C J
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Tēnā koe Jonty
Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the
Act) to Manatū Hauora (the Ministry of Health) on 8 January 2023 for
information regarding the COVID-19 vaccine. Please find a response to each
part of your request below.
Number of emergency presentations for inflammatory heart disease
(pericarditis and myocarditis) in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022
On 9 February 2023, you were informed that information relating to this
part of your request was transferred to Te Whatu Ora (Health New Zealand)
in accordance with section 14(b)(ii) of the Act. You can expect a response
from Te Whatu Ora in due course.
How many people with no co-morbidities have died due to a primary
diagnosis of COVID-19 in 2020, 2021 and 2022. Please supply a breakdown of
data by age group and year of death
This information is not held in the requested form and creating this
information would involve substantial linkage across datasets. While the
Act allows New Zealanders to ask for information from Ministers and
government agencies, there is no requirement for agencies to create new
information or compile information they do not hold. Therefore, this part
of your request is refused under section 18(g)(i) of the Act as the
information requested is not held by the Ministry
Please provide the risk comparison of young males (under 30) developing
serious health events from COVID-19 (coronavirus) vs developing serious
health events from receiving the COVID-19 Vaccines (Pfizer etc). Please
provide a baseline figure, not a smokescreen of 5% vs 8% gobbidy goop.
Information within scope of this part of your request can be found in a
previous OIA request (H202106950 refers), which is publicly available
here:
[1]www.health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/information-release/h202106950-_response.pdf.
Under section 28(3) of the Act, you have the right to ask the Ombudsman to
review any decisions made under this request. The Ombudsman may be
contacted by email at: [email address] or by calling 0800 802
602.
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OIA Services Team
Manatū Hauora | Ministry of Health
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From: Jonty Piers
Dear OIA Requests,
1. "Information within scope of this part of your request can be found in a
previous OIA request (H202106950 refers), which is publicly available
here:
[1]www.health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/information-release/h202106950-_response.pdf."
How does this come within scope I'm wanting data up until 2023 and relating to my specific question. Where specifically is the data relating to young males under 30 and their ethnicity specifically.
Yours sincerely,
Jonty Piers
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Kia ora Jonty,
Thank you for your email.
The information you request is refused under section 18(g)(i) of the Act
as the information requested is not held by the Ministry in the requested
form and there no grounds for believing it held by another agency subject
to the Act.
Ngā mihi
OIA Services Team
Manatū Hauora | Ministry of Health
M[1]inistry of Health information releases
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From: Jonty Piers <[FOI #21532 email]>
Sent: Friday, 10 February 2023 23:57
To: OIA Requests <[email address]>
Subject: Re: Response to your request for official information, ref:
H2023018998
Dear OIA Requests,
1. "Information within scope of this part of your request can be found in
a
previous OIA request (H202106950 refers), which is publicly available
here:
[1]www.health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/information-release/h202106950-_response.pdf."
How does this come within scope I'm wanting data up until 2023 and
relating to my specific question. Where specifically is the data relating
to young males under 30 and their ethnicity specifically.
Yours sincerely,
Jonty Piers
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Tēnā koe Jonty
Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the
Act) to Manatū Hauora (the Ministry of Health) on 8 January 2023 for
information regarding the COVID-19 vaccine. Please find a response to
each
part of your request below.
Number of emergency presentations for inflammatory heart disease
(pericarditis and myocarditis) in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022
On 9 February 2023, you were informed that information relating to this
part of your request was transferred to Te Whatu Ora (Health New Zealand)
in accordance with section 14(b)(ii) of the Act. You can expect a
response
from Te Whatu Ora in due course.
How many people with no co-morbidities have died due to a primary
diagnosis of COVID-19 in 2020, 2021 and 2022. Please supply a breakdown
of
data by age group and year of death
This information is not held in the requested form and creating this
information would involve substantial linkage across datasets. While the
Act allows New Zealanders to ask for information from Ministers and
government agencies, there is no requirement for agencies to create new
information or compile information they do not hold. Therefore, this part
of your request is refused under section 18(g)(i) of the Act as the
information requested is not held by the Ministry
Please provide the risk comparison of young males (under 30) developing
serious health events from COVID-19 (coronavirus) vs developing serious
health events from receiving the COVID-19 Vaccines (Pfizer etc). Please
provide a baseline figure, not a smokescreen of 5% vs 8% gobbidy goop.
Information within scope of this part of your request can be found in a
previous OIA request (H202106950 refers), which is publicly available
here:
[1]www.health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/information-release/h202106950-_response.pdf.
Under section 28(3) of the Act, you have the right to ask the Ombudsman
to
review any decisions made under this request. The Ombudsman may be
contacted by email at: [email address] or by calling 0800 802
602.
Ngā mihi
OIA Services Team
Manatū Hauora | Ministry of Health
M[2]inistry of Health information releases
U[3]nite against COVID-19
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Kia ora Jonty,
Thank you for your request for information regarding ED numbers for
Inflammatory heart disease on 8 February 2023. Please find attached our
response to your request.
If you have any questions, please get in touch at
[1][email address].
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complaint to the Ombudsman. Information about how to do this is available
at [2]www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or by phoning 0800 802 602.
Ngâ mihi,
Te Whatu Ora Ministerial Team
Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand
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