Mr Bloomfield’s interview yesterday and the fatality rate of Covid 19

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From: Erika Whittome

Dear Institute of Environmental Science and Research Limited,

The CEO gave an interview yesterday about diseases and pandemics on NZ television. Would Mr Bloomfield please share his information on the fatality rate or the infection fatality rate for the Covid 19 disease.

I am requesting the information on the rate of number of people infected versus the deaths for this disease.

Yours faithfully,

Erika Whittome

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Dear Erika,

 

I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your request for information dated
Thursday 27 March 2025.

 

ESR will endeavour to respond to your request as soon as possible and in
any event no later than Tuesday 29 April 2025, being 20 working days after
the day your request was received pursuant to section 15(1) of the
Official Information Act 1982.

 

If we are unable to respond to your request by Tuesday 29 April 2025, we
will notify you of an extension of that timeframe.

 

 

Kind Regards,

 

Wendy Chung

Legal Coordinator

Institute of Environmental Science and Research Limited (ESR)

Christchurch Science Centre: 27 Creyke Road, Ilam, Christchurch 8041
PO Box 29181, Christchurch 8540, New Zealand  

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Good Afternoon Erika,

 

Please find attached our response to your Official Information Act request
received by ESR on Thursday 27 March 2025.

 

 

Kind Regards,

 

Wendy Chung

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Institute of Environmental Science and Research Limited (ESR)

Christchurch Science Centre: 27 Creyke Road, Ilam, Christchurch 8041
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From: Erika Whittome

Dear Wendy Chung,
Thank you for the link to the current cases and deaths on te Whatu Ora’s web page for the Covid-19 disease.

This request was to the CEO Mr Bloomfield. The page you supplied says as of today there are 4603 deaths from Covid and a total case number of 2717063.

Please confirm: Is Ashley Bloomfield responding to this request that the fatality rate is 4603 divided by 2717063 ? Ie the fatality rate for Covid 19 is 0.1694 %?

Yours sincerely,

Erika Whittome

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Dear Erika,

I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your request for information dated Wednesday 2 April 2025 .

ESR will endeavour to respond to your request as soon as possible and in any event no later than Monday 5 May 2025, being 20 working days after the day your request was received pursuant to section 15(1) of the Official Information Act 1982.

If we are unable to respond to your request by Monday 5 May 2025, we will notify you of an extension of that timeframe.

Kind Regards,

Wendy Chung
Legal Coordinator
Institute of Environmental Science and Research Limited (ESR)
Christchurch Science Centre: 27 Creyke Road, Ilam, Christchurch 8041
PO Box 29181, Christchurch 8540, New Zealand
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Good Morning Erika,

Please find attached, the ESR response to your OIA request received on Wednesday 2 April.

Kind Regards,

Wendy Chung
Legal Coordinator
Institute of Environmental Science and Research Limited (ESR)
Christchurch Science Centre: 27 Creyke Road, Ilam, Christchurch 8041
PO Box 29181, Christchurch 8540, New Zealand
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From: Erika Whittome

Dear OIA & Privacy Requests,
This request for information is to the CEO gave an interview on the matter. Kindly provide the information

Yours sincerely,

Erika Whittome

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Dear Erika,

Thank you for your email.

As mentioned in our previous response, your request for information has been transferred to Te Whatu (please see attached).

You will hear from them in due course regarding your request.

Kind Regards,

Wendy Chung
Legal Coordinator
Institute of Environmental Science and Research Limited (ESR)
Christchurch Science Centre: 27 Creyke Road, Ilam, Christchurch 8041
PO Box 29181, Christchurch 8540, New Zealand
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Kia ora Erika, 
 
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From: Erika Whittome

Dear hnzOIA,
Your response says the infection fatality rate cannot be calculated.

In October 2020 the WHO calculated it. I will copy and paste:

“. Infection fatality rates ranged from 0.00% to 1.63%, corrected values from 0.00% to 1.54%. Across 51 locations, the median COVID-19 infection fatality rate was 0.27% (corrected 0.23%): the rate was 0.09% in locations with COVID-19 population mortality rates less than the global average (< 118 deaths/million), 0.20% in locations with 118-500 COVID-19 deaths/million people and 0.57% in locations with > 500 COVID-19 deaths/million people. In people younger than 70 years, infection fatality rates ranged from 0.00% to 0.31% with crude and corrected medians of 0.05%.
Conclusion: The infection fatality rate of COVID-19 can vary substantially across different locations and this may reflect differences in population age structure and case-mix of infected and deceased patients and other factors. The inferred infection fatality rates tended to be much lower than estimates made earlier in the pandemic.
(c) 2021 The authors; licensee World Health Organization.
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I will be lodging a complaint with the ombudsman because this information has not been supplied and you are obfuscating my request with statements like it cannot be calculated when in actual fact it can….the WHO did it. .
Yours sincerely,

Erika Whittome

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