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• Epidemics, pandemics (health, New Zeland)

  Why we must not allow COVID to become endemic in New Zealand

  11 October 2021, by JACKSON Rod , LE GROS Graham , POTTER John Donne

  As New Zealand switches from elimination to suppression, those who argue that COVID-19 will become endemic and part of our lives either do not understand or ignore what this would actually mean.
  Elimination has always been a tricky word because it implies eradication. But we have only ever (…)

• Epidemics, pandemics (health, New Zeland)

  Pandemic: Successful Elimination of Covid-19 Transmission in New Zealand

  7 August 2020, by ANGLEMYE Andrew , BAKER Michael G.

  Soon after initial descriptions of an outbreak in Wuhan, China, were shared, reports in late January 2020 (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30260-9/fulltext. opens in new tab) confirmed that Covid-19 was almost certain to become a serious pandemic. Despite New (…)