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19 December 2023
Virginia Crawford
By email: [FYI request #25196 email]
Ref:
H2023034195
Tēnā koe Virginia
Response to 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 15 December 2023 for information regarding a previous OIA request
(H202104788 refers). You requested:
“I have been unable to find the request referred to above (H202104788), made sometime
in 2021. Could you please supply a link to it, as I would like to check your response(s).”
On 15 December 2023 Manatū Hauora provided you with a link to the published OIA request:
www.health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/information-release/h202104788_response.pdf.
On the same day you responded:
Thank you for your prompt reply, much appreciated.
However, although this is an accurate copy of the actual text of the request, it is not a link
to the ACTUAL request, which Is what I requested.
Could you therefore please supply the link requested?
Please find attached the original request along with its accompanying attachment. Please note
that some information has been withheld under section 9(2)(a) of the Act to protect the privacy
of natural persons. I have considered the countervailing public interest in releasing information
and consider that it does not outweigh the need to withhold at this time.
I trust this information fulfils your request. If you wish to discuss any aspect of your request with
us, including this decision, please feel free to contact the OIA Services Team on:
[email address].
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.
Please note that this response, with your personal details removed, may be published on the
Manatū Hauora website at:
www.health.govt.nz/about-ministry/information-releases/responses-
official-information-act-requests.
Nāku noa, nā
Alex Fuller
Acting Manager, OIA Services
Government and Executive Services | Te Pou Whakatere Kāwanatanga
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The results of this submission may be viewed at:
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https://www.health.govt.nz/node/9165/submission/41909
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1. Have there been any independent studies conducted by the New Zealand government on
human cells to determine whether SARS-CoV-2 causes disease and is the cause of
Covid-19? Please provide the studies and evidence. This CDC paper confirms human cells
could not be infected and is in fact harmless to human beings -
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/6/20-0516_article
2. Please provide details of the evidence (including source information) used by the Ministry
that confirm that social distancing and the wearing of masks have been/are effective in
stopping the transmission of Covid-19? This new study from Stanford
(
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680614/) shows that even wearing a mask
for short periods causes Hypoxemia as stated, “It is well established that acute significant
deficit in O2 (hypoxemia) and increased levels of CO2 (hypercapnia) even for few minutes
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can be severely harmful and lethal, while chronic hypoxemia and hypercapnia cause health
deterioration, exacerbation of existing conditions, morbidity and ultimately mortality.”. It
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continues on to describe the relationship between the size of the viral particles and weave of
the medical and non-medical masks, “The physical properties of medical and non-medical
facemasks suggest that facemasks are ineffective to block viral particles due to their
difference in scales [16], [17], [25]. According to the current knowledge, the virus
SARS-CoV-2 has a diameter of 60 nm to 140 nm [nanometers (billionth of a meter)] [16],
[17], while medical and non-medical facemasks’ thread diameter ranges from 55 µm to 440
µm [micrometers (one millionth of a meter), which is more than 1000 times larger. Due to the
difference in sizes between SARS-CoV-2 diameter and facemasks thread diameter (the virus
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is 1000 times smaller), SARS-CoV-2 can easily pass through any facemask.”. Here we have
further clarification that there was no difference with masked and unmasked individuals and
no transmission occurred, “Clinical scientific evidence challenges further the efficacy of
facemasks to block human-to-human transmission or infectivity. A randomized controlled trial
(RCT) of 246 participants [123 (50%) symptomatic)] who were allocated to either wearing or
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not wearing surgical facemask, assessing viruses transmission including coronavirus [26].
The results of this study showed that among symptomatic individuals (those with fever,
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cough, sore throat, runny nose ect…) there was no difference between wearing and not
wearing facemask for coronavirus droplets transmission of particles of >5 µm. Among
asymptomatic individuals, there was no droplets or aerosols coronavirus detected from any
participant with or without the mask, suggesting that asymptomatic individuals do not
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transmit or infect other people. This was further supported by a study on infectivity where
445 asymptomatic individuals were exposed to asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 carrier (been
positive for SARS-CoV-2) using close contact (shared quarantine space) for a median of 4 to
5 days. The study found that none of the 445 individuals was infected with SARS-CoV-2
confirmed by real-time reverse transcription polymerase.”.
So why is the government continuing to push the narrative by mandating facemasks on
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public transport when it is clearly shown that they do nothing to prevent trasnmission? Here
are a further 18 studies to support the ineffectiveness of facemasks.
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2493952/pdf/annrcse01509-0009.pdf
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1157412/
https://europepmc.org/article/med/7379387
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ccd.1810170306
https://europepmc.org/article/med/11924291
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01658736
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0310057X0102900402
https://europepmc.org/article/med/11760479
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http://www.advancesinpd.com/adv01/21Figueiredo.htm
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https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Does-evidence-based-medicine-support-the-of-in-in-
Bahli/751acd427c20c8dc7d1fbc1b45eead104286f481?p2df
https://pubs.asahq.org/anesthesiology/article/113/6/1447/9572/Is-Routine-Use-of-a-Face-Ma
sk-Necessary-in-the
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1445-2197.2009.05200.x
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https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD002929.pub2/full
https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD002929.pub3/full
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https://europepmc.org/article/med/25294675
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https://journals.lww.com/jbjsjournal/Abstract/2014/09030/Surgical_Attire_and_the_Operating
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0141076815583167
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3. Have there been any studies and or experiments undertaken to extract samples from
patients diagnosed with Covid-19 and which have reisolated the SARS-CoV-2 virus?
Isolation pertaining to the dictionary definition whereby a viral particle is separated from all
other cellular and genetic material and where you are only left with SARS-CoV-2 viral
particles? Have those purified viral particles, then, in their whole form, been genetically
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sequenced in their entirety end to end?
4. Have there been any studies conducted on the efficacy of “social distancing”, proving that
it prevents transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus? That bodily particulates exhaled/secreted
from human beings, has been captured and SARS-CoV-2 has been shown to be in those
particulates, following the same scientific principles mentioned in question 3 whereby it was
purified/reisolated? If so please provide the papers/information and evidence. As per this
paper published here, it explains that through human experimentation during the 1918
influenza pandemic, that influenza could not be transmitted to the volunteers via a number of
different methods -
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2862332/.
5. What control experiments or studies have been conducted to ensure that cell/tissue
cultures believed to contain SARS-CoV-2 were not reacting or dying off due to the starvation
of those cells, to the antibiotics or to other contaminants added to said cell/tissue culture?
What control methods are used to ensure the experiments themselves are not the cause for
cell death in these cultures before adding samples believed to contain the SARS-CoV-2
virus? Please provide the papers and evidence.
6. Please provide evidence that a PCR/RT-PCR test is a diagnostic tool? What other
methods or factors alongside the Covid-19 RT-PCR are being taken into consideration to
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diagnose a man or woman of having Covid-19? What is the cycle threshold being used for
the Covid-19 RT-PCR tests here in New Zealand? In this paper we see that anything over a
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cycle threshold of 25 is meaningless -
https://stb732olhuqgrkwnqmahivyfyy-adwhj77lcyoafdy-academic-oup-com.translate.goog/cid
/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaa1491/5912603.
7. In the CDC paper titled ‘CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR
Diagnostic Panel’, we discover that on page 42 the PCR test was designed when “no
quantified virus isolates of the 2019-nCoV were available for CDC use at the time the test
was developed”. So how can an RT-PCR test be created if you do not know what sequence
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you are testing for? Instead they used already known RNA stocks from a computer database
that have nothing to do with SARS-CoV-2, mixed in with other genetic material such as
human A549 cells, which are alveolar lung cells with cancer. To top it off it is mixed with a
viral transport medium, which is a concoction of veal and bovine genetic material, including
antibiotics and antifungals. This is all to “mimic” the sputum of people suspected of having
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Covid-19. Here is the link to the paper I am referencing -
https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download
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8. Please provide the data for the percentage of men/women who were healthy with a
positive RT- PCR test?
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9. Has there been any studies conducted on the efficacy of “social distancing” proving that it
prevents transmission and that bodily particulates exhaled from human beings, has been
captured and SARS-CoV-2 has shown to be in those particulates, following the same
scientific principles mentioned in question 3? If so please provide the information and
evidence. As per this paper published here, it explains that through human experimentation
during the 1918 influenza pandemic that influenza could not be transmitted to the volunteers
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via a number of different methods:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2862332/
10. Please provide the data/breakdown of those who were diagnosed as having died of
Covid-19 in New Zealand, including their ages, their existing comorbidities if they had any
and if postmortems were carried out to confirm the cause of death?
11. Please provide the independent studies conducted, with evidence that a healthy human
being can be asymptomatic and pass on the SARS-CoV-2 virus and cause the disease
Covid-19? This study conducted on nearly 10 million city residents in China show
asymptomatic transmission did not occur -
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19802-w
12. Please provide specific examples of how and in what form/media/method (including
dates) the Ministry of Health has disclosed fully to the public the dangers and possible
adverse reactions that may occur after having the Pfizer Covid-19 injection? As of the 10th
of April 2021 there have been 1140 reported deaths on the VAERS system shortly after
receiving the Pfizer\Biontech and Moderna Covid-19 vaccine since December 2020. The
VAERS system also reports as of 10th of April 2021 all adverse events related to the
Pfizer\Biontech and Moderna Covid-19 “vaccine” has reached 167,845 from December
2020.
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13. Since by legal definition the mRNA technology developed by Pfizer\Biontech for
Covid-19 is not a vaccine. Have you informed the public that this is in fact a 'gene therapy’
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and that it is in experimental safety testing stages until 2023?
14. Have doctors and other medical professionals been advised by the Ministry of Health on
how to report adverse events to CARM due to this experimental Pfizer\Biontech injection?
15. There is public access to the VAERS reporting system linked to the CDC website. Is
there public access to the NZ CARM data concerning the Pfizer/Biontech vaccine adverse
reactions? If not, why not? Is there a plan to make access available to the public? If not why
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not when the CDC VAERS site has no hesitation about doing this? Will the Ministry of Health
make the data about adverse reactions and deaths from said vaccine available to the public
on the MOH website within 28 days of people receiving said vaccine, in the event that CARM
will not make the information publicly available? If not why not when this information is in the
public interest?
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16. Please also provide information on whether Dr Ashley Bloomfield has any conflicts of
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interest with the vaccine manufacturers such as Pfizer\Biontech or the World Health
Organization and or with The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation? I would like to request all
correspondences sent through to Dr Bloomfield whether via email, mail or other electronic
communications from any of the above mentioned sources.
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17. Has the New Zealand Government received and accepted money in the form of 'Covid
relief Aid' from the World Bank or the IMF providing that the country meet certain conditions
such as making the country lockdown, quarantine, curfews, social distancing and or mask
mandates? If so, how much was given in aid? Please provide me with any correspondences
received by any government department or Minister, including the Prime Minister.
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18. Please provide the statistical data showing how many suicides have taken place from the
1st April 2020 - 1st April 2021 and also providing the suicide data of the previous 4 years
here in New Zealand.
Document Outline
- H2023034195 documents for release_Redacted.pdf
