7 February 2024
M Bell
[FYI request #25348 email]
Tēnā koe
Your request for Official information, reference: HNZ00035551
Thank you for your email on 10 January 2024, asking for the following under the Of icial
Information Act 1982 (the Act):
“Please provide all of the unreleased minutes from the Covid Vaccine Independent Safety
Monitoring Board (CV-ISMB). Some of the earlier available minutes were available in the
link below: https://www.health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/pages/h202200492-
documents-redacted.pdf (although currently only available on the wayback machine)”
This part of your request is refused under section 9(2)(a) of the Act, to protect the privacy of natural
persons. Please note that the need to protect the privacy of these individuals is not outweighed by
the public interest in the release of this information, and this is unlikely to change in future. These
particular meetings were held strictly to discuss individual cases, and therefore there is no
information that can be released without breaching the privacy of the individuals involved.
Al available minutes from these meetings can be found here:
https://www.tewhatuora.govt.nz/for-
the-health-sector/vaccine-information/vaccine-service-delivery/covid-19-vaccine-delivery/vaccine-
strategy-planning-and-insights/who-were-working-with/
“In that previous partial release of 2021 minutes from the CV-ISMB on page 58 of 87 under
the subsection “Update on Rapid Cycle Analysis” it mentions a survival analysis across 10
year age bands and claimed there was “no increased risk in mortality between those
vaccinated and not vaccinated. I am requesting those specific documents from the rapid
cycle analysis work for the 80-90 and 90+ ages, plus also the same for all other age bands,
i.e. 0-10, 10-20, 20-30, 30-40, 40-50, 50-60, 60-70, 70-80. I am also requesting any
subsequent reports of that nature”
This information is publicly available in the Medsafe Reports. Medsafe reports #36 to #46 from
November 2021 to November 2022 contain the subsequent reports of the information discussed in
the referenced CV ISMB meeting. This information can be found under the Observed-versus-
expected deaths table in this report. Please refer to
https://www.medsafe.govt.nz/COVID-
19/vaccine-report-overview.asp
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Nāku iti noa, nā
Alana Ewe-Snow
Director, Prevention
National Public Health Service
Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand
TeWhatuOra.govt.nz
PO Box 793, Wel ington 6140
New Zealand
