Epidemiologist Response to Steve Kisch Excess Death Analysis.
M Bell made this Official Information request to Health New Zealand
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From: M Bell
Dear Health New Zealand,
This FYI request is directed specifically toward Senior Epidemiologist Michael Walsh
Greetings Michael,
2 requests please:
(a) Please confirm you have received an email from Mr Steve Kirsch entitled "Kindly read this article showing data from 5 countries"
(b) Please provide your response to Mr Kirsch OR if no response the reasoning for no response.
If it is intended that there is no response to Mr Kirsch's email I would like to make the identical request that Mr Kirsch has made, i.e. with reference to the same article please provide an explanation as to how the charts contained therein are consistent with a safe vaccine. (https://kirschsubstack.com/p/medicare-de...). Alternatively rather than specifically responding to that article please provide the existing Health NZ safety signal analysis on the NZ vaccine data that indicates there is no safety signal for the outcome of death.
If you intend to refuse this OIA request on the grounds that it would necessitate the creation of new information, or that it is not held by Health New Zealand please respond with exactly whom you believe would hold this information, or whom is compiling this information and redirect toward them instead.
Yours faithfully,
M Bell
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Tçnâ koe
As a brief update while we are in the process of assessing your OIA
request, Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand has taken a number of urgent
steps, including legal action, in light of unauthorised disclosure and
misuse of data by one of its staff members.
We have been granted an injunction through the Employment Relations
Authority that prevents any publication of the data to ensure that we can
take all steps to protect the privacy of individuals. In addition, the
individual has been charged by Police, an employment investigation is
underway, and the person is no longer at work. A thorough investigation is
also underway to identify any learnings from this incident.
We have a dedicated team responding to this incident and are working
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assure people there is no evidence whatsoever that vaccination is
responsible for excess mortality in New Zealand.
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From: M Bell
Hi Michael,
I have received some kind of a cut and paste reply from you that does not seem to have much to do with my request. In this particular case the whistleblower appears to have met the criteria to be protected by the protected disclosures act 2000 and the current reprisals on the individual that have been taken appear to be illegal. To my knowledge, it has also already been well established that the privacy of individuals in the data has been maintained.
I have not asked about any of that in my OIA request, essentially I am asking for NZ Health epidemiologist rebuttal to a public article, or alternatively the existing information which satisfactorily establishes that there is no safety signal for the outcome of death.
You have stated that....
“Vaccination is safe and effective, and everyone should keep up to date with their shots to protect themselves, whanau, and their communities. We assure people THERE IS NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER that vaccination is responsible for excess mortality in New Zealand.”
There are 2 significant issues with this.
1 If your comment is in response to the leaked data then you are making a publication of “information derived from it” and have therefore gone against the supposed non publication order.
2 The part of your statement I have put in CAPS is clearly false as there is evidence extant from the data itself and quite a few public articles analyzing the data showing that vaccination is responsible for excess mortality.
Regarding the purported “non-publication order” at this point I do not see any information to indicate that this has any legal bearing on the NZ public. As there is enormous public interest in this whole topic, NZ and worldwide, anything less than full transparency is an admission that there is something to hide by Health NZ.
Regards, M Bell
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Kia ora M Bell
Thank you for your request for information regarding Epidemiologist
response to excess death analysis on 11 December. Please find attached
our response to your request.
If you have any questions, please get in touch at
[1][Health New Zealand request email].
If you are not happy with this response, you have the right to make a
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
TeWhatuOra.govt.nz
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