04 February 2022
Official information request No. 8140009805
(Please quote this in any correspondence)
Mark Mumby
By email
: [FYI request #18195 email]
Tēnā koe Mark
Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987
Re: Covid Infection Rate
Thank you for your email of 14 January 2022. Your specific request and our response are
set out below.
Phil Goff was quoted as saying -
“Research shows that the risk of infection between two unvaccinated people is 20-fold higher
than between two vaccinated people"
and is published on your web site -
https://ourauckland.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/news/2021/11/auckland-council-s-staffed-
facilities-to-require-vaccination-passes/
There are no references to any research that may prove this.
1.Can you please provide the documentation/research that proves - risk of infection between
two unvaccinated people is 20-fold higher than between two vaccinated people
You have requested the source of the following statement published on
Our Auckland and
made by Mayor Phil Goff:
“Research shows that the risk of infection between two
unvaccinated people is 20-fold higher than between two vaccinated people”.
This information was sourced from an article in
The Conversation and republished by
Stuff,
authored by Christopher Baker, Research Fellow in Statistics for Biosecurity Risk at The
University of Melbourne, and Andrew Robinson, Chief Executive Of icer of the Centre of
Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis at The University of Melbourne.
This article can be read online at either of the following links:
https:/ theconversation.com/your-unvaccinated-friend-is-roughly-20-times-more-likely-to-
give-you-covid-170448
https:/ www.stuf .co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300441329/your-unvaccinated-friend-is-
roughly-20-times-more-likely-to-give-you-covid
2. Can you also please provide any meeting minutes (links or video is suitable) of council ors
where vaccination mandates were discussed.
Private Bag 92300, Auckland 1142 | aucklandcouncil.govt.nz | Ph 09 301 0101
We wil soon be publishing information about our approach to vaccinations on our website,
including information on how the decisions were made. Therefore, your request is refused
under Section 17 (d) of the LGOIMA, as it wil soon be publicly available.
3. Can you please supply how the members of the council voted to agree to the mandates if
there was a vote taken.
We wil soon be publishing information about our approach to vaccinations on our website,
including information on how the decisions were made. Therefore, your request is refused
under Section 17 (d) of the LGOIMA, as it wil soon be publicly available.
Decisions relating to the information that is being released to you were made by
Paul
Robertson General Manager Health Safety & Wellbeing and Rose Leonard General
Manager Governance Services.
Should you believe Auckland Council has not responded appropriately to your request, you
have the right by way of complaint, under section 27(3) of the LGOIMA, to apply to the
Ombudsman to seek an investigation and review of the decision.
Information about how to make a complaint is available at www.ombudsman.parliament.nz
or freephone 0800 802 602.
If you have any further queries, please contact me on 09 301 0101 quoting official information
request number 8140009805.
Ngā mihi
Angela Hare
Senior Privacy & LGOIMA Business Partner
Governance Services
Private Bag 92300, Auckland 1142 | aucklandcouncil.govt.nz | Ph 09 301 0101
