133 Molesworth Street
PO Box 5013
Wellington 6140
New Zealand
T+64 4 496 2000
9 February 2023
Jonty Piers
By email: [FYI request #21532 email]
Ref:
H2023018998
Tēnā koe Jonty
Partial transfer of your request for official information Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) to Manatū Hauora
(the Ministry of Health) on 8 January 2023. You requested:
1. Number of emergency presentations for inflammatory heart disease (pericarditis and
myocarditis) in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022
2. 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
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 have been advised that part 1 of your request is more closely connected to the functions of Te
Whatu Ora (Health New Zealand). Therefore, I have decided transfer that part of your request to
Te Whatu Ora under section 14(b)(ii) of the Act. You can expect a response from Te Whatu Ora
in due course. Please accept our apologies for the delay in partially transferring your request.
Manatū Hauora will respond to parts 2 and 3 of your request as soon as reasonably practicable.
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.
Nāku noa, na
Jan Torres
Manager, OIA Services
Government and Executive Services | Te Pou Whakatere Kāwanatanga
COPY OF OIA REQUEST
From: Jonty Piers
<[FYI request #21532 email]>;
Received: Sun Jan 08 2023 11:19:36 GMT+1300 (New Zealand Daylight Time)
To: OIA Requests
<[email address]>; OIA
<[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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