Effect of Pfizer vaccine on reducing transmission
Ruby Keighley made this Official Information request to Ministry of Health
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From: Ruby Keighley
Dear Ministry of Health,
There is a request for information document that has been made available online and I wish to confirm if it has been doctored or if the information is true because the information on the MOH website does not reflect this. The ref is H202110912.
This document states that 'reducing transmission was not an outcome measured in trials of the Pfizer vaccine' but on the Ministry of Health website it claims getting the vaccine will make you 'less likely to transmit the virus to others.'
https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/dise...
Please can you confirm if the official information request is legitimate and, if so, why the information is not reflected on the Ministry of Health website.
Yours faithfully,
Ruby
From: OIA Requests
Kia ora Ruby,
Thank you for your email regarding Pfizer vaccine studies of COVID-19
transmission. Your request was transferred from the Ministry of Justice to
the Ministry of Health for a response.
A clarification of this has been published on the Ministry of Health
website
here: [1]https://www.health.govt.nz/system/files/...
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Ngā mihi
OIA Services Team
[2]Ministry of Health information releases
[3]Unite against COVID-19
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Erika Whittome left an annotation ()
One of the URLs above no longer works because the MoH have removed their response to a public official information act from their own website.
However this response to the OIA on the ability to reduce transmission from Sept 2021 is here
https://web.archive.org/web/202110060914...
Link to this