Appendix 1
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4 November 2021
Tess McCawe
By email: [email address]
Ref:
H202114758
Dear Tess
Response to your request for official information
Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) to the Ministry of Health
(the Ministry) on 21 October 2021. You asked:
Please advise me the AESI category that my vaccine reaction (AE0009128) has been placed
under in Report#30. The details of the reaction are attached and as it has been reported as
medically significant, I know it will have been classified with a cause.
The reaction reported was not an Adverse Event of Special Interest (AESI) and the report number
is AEFI-A-033854. Medsafe can confirm that it was reported as serious due to being medically
significant.
For further information, you may wish to contact Centre for Adverse Reactions and Monitoring
(CARM) at the University of Otago directly. CARM undertakes pharmacovigilance under contract
to the Ministry. Their contact details are provided at:
https://nzphvc.otago.ac.nz/contact/.
I trust this satisfies your request. Under section 28(3) of the Act, you have the right to ask the
Ombudsman to review any decisions made under this request. The Ombudsman may be
contacted by email at:
[email address] or by calling 0800 802 602.
Yours sincerely
Chris James
Group Manager
Medsafe