Kia ora Sean,  

  

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From: Sean Richards <[FOI #20518 email]>;
Received: Mon Sep 12 2022 16:24:57 GMT+1200 (New Zealand Standard Time)
To: OIA Requests <[email address]>; OIA <[email address]>;
Subject: Official Information request - All advice tendered about the
ending of the COVID-19 Protection Framework

Dear Ministry of Health,

The Prime Minister was quoted this afternoon as saying that "[...] based
on public health advice we are able to remove the traffic light system and
with that decision claim back the certainty we have all lost over the last
three years." [1] Conversely, A. Prof. Siouxsie Wiles was quoted as saying
that "[ditching restrictions] would also be a big, and in the long term
expensive, mistake?" [2]

This is an *urgent* request under s 12(3) of the Official Information Act
for all of the public health advice that the Ministry of Health has
tendered to the Prime Minister, Cabinet Office, DPMC, and similar
institutions, that the Prime Minister refers to.

I request urgency as COVID-19, and in particular Long Covid, has been
described as a "mass disabling event" [3] and thus I am concerned that
scrapping the vast majority of social restrictions will lead to increased
infection and disabling. I would like to be confident that the advice
tendered to Cabinet is that modelling suggests this is safe, and that the
Government is adequately considering the wellbeing of its citizens.

[1]
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[2]
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[3]
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Yours faithfully,

Sean Richards

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Kia ora Sean,
Please find a response to your request for information.

Ngā mihi 

  

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Kia ora Sean,
Thank you for your request for official information, received on 12
September 2022 for:

"...all of the public health advice that the Ministry of Health has
tendered to the Prime Minister, Cabinet Office, DPMC  and similar
institutions, that the Prime Minister refers to"

You received a response to your request on 10 October 2022 under the
reference number: H2022012465 and informed that Manatū Hauora (the
Ministry of Health) had identified two documents in scope of your request,
titled: 'Memo Public Health Risk Assessment of COVID-19 Mandated Response
Measures - 17 August' and 'Required order changes to support the shift to
a new approach for managing COVID-19'. Both of these documents were
refused under section 18(d) of the Act, as the information requested will
soon be publicly available.
Manatū Hauora is contacting you to inform you that this information is now
publicly available on our website
at: [1]www.health.govt.nz/about-ministry/information-releases/general-information-releases/information-associated-decisions-new-approach-managing-covid-19

Ngā mihi 

  

OIA Services Team

Manatū Hauora | Ministry of Health

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