Saturday, 10 July 2021, 1:11 pm
This is the year the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, the
biggest immunisation campaign in New Zealand history. For
the NZ population over 16 years old, the NZ Government has
declared that by the end of 2021 the programme will be
complete, for those who wish to be vaccinated. Inherent in
this undertaking is the assumption that, by 2022, the
immunisation uptake will have reached sufficient levels for
population immunity to begin to take hold, substantially
protecting NZ from further outbreaks. This in turn will
allow New Zealand to begin to gradually open its borders.
There are several factors that are putting this commitment
Article – The Health Reformist This is the year the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, the biggest immunisation campaign in New Zealand history. For the NZ population over 16 years old, the NZ Government has declared that by the end of 2021 the programme will be complete, for those who …
This is the year the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, the biggest immunisation campaign in New Zealand history. For the NZ population over 16 years old, the NZ Government has declared that by the end of 2021 the programme will be complete, for those who wish to be vaccinated. Inherent in this undertaking is the assumption that, by 2022, the immunisation uptake will have reached sufficient levels for population immunity to begin to take hold, substantially protecting NZ from further outbreaks. This in turn will allow New Zealand to begin to gradually open its borders. There are several factors that are putting this commitment at risk. These include a slow vaccine rollout performance, vaccine hesitancy, limited
population immunity – ‘aka’
herd immunity.
There are three factors that stand in
the way of population immunity and any future relaxation of
border controls. These are vaccine hesitancy & vaccine
skepticism, children under 16 years old not being
vaccinated, and to a lesser extent vaccine ineffectiveness.
These factors effectively mean approximately half of our
entire population will not be immune after the full rollout
of the COVID-19 vaccination. This effectively will stop our
borders from opening.
The end game of the NZ
elimination strategy relies on effective treatments and/or a
vaccine to support the strategy’s pillars; of border
controls, detection/surveillance, contact tracing and
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