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Long covid statistics

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Dear Ministry of Health,

Please can you let me know:

1) To date, since the beginning of the covid pandemic, how many people have been diagnosed with suffering from long covid?
2) How many of these people have reviewed at least one covid-19 vaccination?

Thank you

Yours faithfully,

Dan

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Kia ora Dan,

 

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From: DG

Dear OIA Requests,

Thank you for your response to my query.

I would like understand further.

If no Government department or agency is currently collating any statistics on Long Covid then how can these statements in your response be carried out/justified:

1) "The Ministry continues to assess the impact of Long COVID via funded research".
2) "In August 2022, the Ministry introduced new clinical codes for long COVID"
3) "we released the first long COVID guidelines for health professionals, individuals and those caring for people with long COVID"
4) "The Ministry has recently commissioned a number of research projects looking at long COVID"

It is not clear in your response who is funding this work but if it is taxpayers money then I, as a taxpayer, would expect to know that there were statistics coming out of any research.

So my question then is, why is research taking place, government guidelines being released, and new clinical codes being produced for something we do not know how many people are suffering from?

Why are these decisions being made without any statistics to justify these actions?

Yours sincerely,

Dan

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Kia ora Dan,

 

Thank you for your request for official information. The reference number
for your request is: H2024041125

  

As required under the Official Information Act 1982, Manatū Hauora will
endeavour to respond to your request no later than 20 working days after
the day your request was received. If you'd like to calculate the
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review any decisions made under this request. The Ombudsman may be
contacted by email at: [3][email address] or by calling 0800
802 602.
 

Ngā mihi 

 

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You should ask for how many times the long COVID code has been assigned to patients, how are the codes stored and who accesses them.

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Kia ora Dan,
 
Please find attached a letter regarding your request for information.
 

Ngā mihi 

  

OIA Services Team

Manatū Hauora | Ministry of Health

M[1]inistry of Health information releases 
U[2]nite against COVID-19 

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