Tagged: community transmission

Why I’m confident there is no community transmission in NZ - Infectious Thoughts

Siouxsie Wiles • Jun 25, 2020 •

• border,
• community transmission,
• coronavirus,
• COVID-19,
• testing

Both the leader of the opposition Todd Muller and University of Auckland Professor Des Gorman have gone on the record as saying they suspect Covid-19 is spreading in the community in New Zealand once again. Let me explain why I don’t agree with them. As best I can tell there are two reasons Muller and Gorman have jumped to the … Read More

What we would like to see on the Ministry of Health’s website to better inform progress on COVID-19 elimination - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • May 03, 2020 •

• case data,
• community transmission,
• coronavirus,
• COVID-19,
• elimination goal,
• probable cases

Gordon Purdie, Nick Wilson, Michael G Baker In this blog we analyse data from the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 website and display a key graph that we think should be routinely on that website. We also detail a potentially more useful way to categorise case data so that the public and research community can better track progress on the … Read More