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Anti-vax fanatic RFK Jr. took his war against vaccines to Samoa (population: 208,853) in 2019. Several months later, scores of people were dead and 1,867 people were hospitalized with measles.

The previous year two babies in Samoa had died from an improperly formulated mix of the MMR vaccine. Anti-vax maniacs like RFK Jr. seized on this accident to claim that MMR vaccines were deadly. Vaccination rates in Samoa plummeted and that set the stage for the deadly outbreak.

The roots of the tragedy stretch back to July 2018 and the deaths of two babies due to a medical error in the administration of an MMR vaccine, after the vaccine powder was mixed with expired muscle relaxant anaesthetic instead of water. The government shut down the vaccination programme for 10 months to investigate – allowing thousands of babies to go unvaccinated, against World Health Organization advice, and creating space for rumours to take hold. During the same period, Kennedy, who denies being anti-vaccine, had been hosted in Samoa. He visited four months before the measles outbreak was declared, in October 2019, meeting with government officials and anti-vaccine influencers in what health advocates and Ekeroma claim was a “significant disinformation campaign” stoking distrust in vaccines. Kennedy and his wife, Cheryl Hines, were special guests at Samoa’s 57th independence celebrations in June 2019, as part of a trip that came about after the anti-vaccination non-profit group Kennedy founded, Children’s Health Defense, connected with vocal Samoan vaccine critic and traditional healer Edwin Tamasese.

Because of anti-vax influencers, the MMR vaccination rate was way below that of other countries in the region.

Kennedy and his Children’s Health Defense group walked into this vacuum of mistrust – of western medicine, of the government – said Helen Petousis-Harris, a New Zealand-based vaccinologist and co-director of the Global Vaccine Data Network. When the government did restart its vaccination programme, people were reluctant: when the epidemic was declared on 16 October, the rate had dropped to 31%, down from 84% four years previously, according to WHO data. “The Samoan establishment handled the whole situation really badly and did not take the support and advice that was provided to them at the time, which is what allowed this to unravel and let RFK get in there,” Petousis-Harris said. “When you get people who are wealthy and influential going into a fragile setting, it’s like the top of the food chain visiting and meeting up with those who act as the megaphone. The impact was devastating.” The resurgence of disease when vaccine rates go down is predictable, she said. Kennedy has spread false claims that the MMR vaccines cause autism. According to the Centre for Countering Digital Hate, he is one of the world’s top disinformation super-spreaders. Public health officials in Samoa said anti-vaccination activists had been empowered by Kennedy, which had affected vaccine uptake.

Samoa has since re-instituted compulsory MMR vaccinations for babies. But the resumption came too late for those who were affected by the 2019 outbreak.

MMR vaccination in Samoa is now compulsory for babies over nine months. But in another small village outside Apia, where mother-of-eight Siiae Olilefauaitu sits on the grave of her one-year-old baby, Moana, in the encroaching dark, none of this is of any comfort. Her family lives at the end of this muddy track without power. They use a gas cooker and go to bed at nightfall. They could move in with family elsewhere but Olilefauaitu doesn’t want to leave Moana, who is buried outside the front door. “She is the first thing we see every day,” Olilefauaitu says. “She was a character, she was crawling, she smiled a lot. I can never forget her.”

RFK Jr. is now being entrusted to oversee epidemics in the United States by Donald Trump.

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Helen Petousis-Harris, the well-known NZ vaccinologist who continues to push the “safe and effective” mantra for the COVID jab, found herself in the middle of a social media storm after posting a tweet about Donald Trump’s historic election victory.

“Can’t belief [sic] USA have normalized authoritarianism and installed a fascist dictator. Watching a train wreck in slomo. I dread the fate of women and children. #handmadestale”

The tweet quickly went viral, attracting a slew of strongly-worded responses accusing her of extreme political bias and questioning her authority as a public health professional.

One of the more scathing replies read, “I can’t believe they give commie nut jobs like you any voice or authority instead of popping you into the nuthouse with the other demon puppets.”

The intensity of the response was echoed across numerous other tweets that criticised Petousis-Harris for allegedly letting personal biases colour her professional stance.

Another commenter wrote, “This is what happens when Trump Derangement Syndrome goes unchecked. People with supposed credibility in medicine start acting like political hacks.”

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Plus de rappels pour moi, dit une grande prêtresse des vaccins.

L'éminent pro-vaccin, anti-vaccin néo-zélandais, codirecteur du Global Vaccine Data Network, conseiller de Pfizer et conseiller du gouvernement néo-zélandais dit : "Ne vous faites plus vacciner, je ne le ferai pas".

Dans une interview du 11 octobre avec Radio New Zealand, le Dr. Helen Petousis-Harris est revenue sur ses précédents conseils pro-vaccination accablants.

Points saillants de leurs réponses dans le RNZ Morning Report :

Sur une quatrième injection de rappel : « Je n'irais pas chercher une injection de rappel. Je ne pense pas que ce serait particulièrement utile. Je ne vois aucune preuve que cela me serait bénéfique." Et bien.

RTFM, Justin.

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Covid 19 coronavirus: Ministry of Health releases vaccine target data

More than one million New Zealanders are expected to be vaccinated by the end of June, according to the Ministry of Health's newly released plan.

It comes after the Government refused to share its progress numbers on the Ministry of Health website following multiple request from the Herald and criticism of messy handling of public health data.

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Today, the plan reveals a breakdown of the number of people who have so far been vaccinated at each District Health Board along with a weekly target of the number expected to be vaccinated by the end of June.

By June 30, the Ministry of Health expects at least 1,161,952 New Zealanders should have received their first jab

Almost half of those (497,991 people) will be from the Auckland metro region, which accounts for about 26 per cent of its population.

At Canterbury DHB, nearly 100,100 people (16 per cent of the population) should have been given their first dose by then.

And at Capital and Coast and Hutt Valley, at least 65,000 people (20 per cent of its population) should have had their first jab.

Auckland University vaccines expert Dr Helen Petousis-Harris told the Herald that target was absolutely achievable and the rate that people were being vaccinated was just getting faster and faster.

"We can't apply how many we have done over the last couple of weeks to how many we can get done in the next couple of months because each week we have got an ever increasing number of vaccinators and our systems are expanding, such as the number of sites we have available."

In order for every New Zealander to be vaccinated by the end of the year, it will mean that about one million people will need the jab each month.

Petousis-Harris said again that was doable.

"Last year with the flu vaccine rollout, 1.7 million people were vaccinated in six or eight weeks so I think we have got this."

She said it was a matter of getting our systems and processes working well because that's what has been slowing us down.

It's crucial that the ministry releases the number of vaccinators that are available in each region and that we can be assured we have enough, Petousis-Harris said.

To date, 135,000 New Zealanders have been vaccinated across the country.

The most common demographic to receive the vaccination so far are those between the age of 30 and 39. More than 21,000 in that age bracket have had their first job and more than 6000 have had both.

More than 60,000 females have received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine and more than 41,000 males.

Despite having a bigger population than six other regions, Taranaki DHB is planned to have the lowest coverage with only 7 per cent of its population vaccinated by June 30.

The woman then encourages the violent act, saying "smack him".

The man can be seen hitting the possum with his fist, sending it flying off the fence and onto the ground.

A loud thud could be heard on the video as the man's fist made impact with the possum before those watching laughed at the violent act.

On social media, the man then claimed he shot the possum after punching it in the face.

The man defended himself on social media when a viewer told him his actions were "not very nice", writing: "Neither is the fact that possums are killing native, endangers species (sic)."

When asked why he would do something like that, he responded "cause I can".

Direct Animal Action spokeswoman Deirdre Sims says the video is deplorable and is an act of animal cruelty.

"While possums are considered 'pests' in New Zealand, what is shown in this TikTok video is blatant animal cruelty and this is not acceptable behaviour.

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NZ Vaccinologist Helen Petousis Harris makes a startling admission in interview about the Covid injection side effect Myocarditis (The Platform Interview)

NZ Vaccinologist Helen Petousis Harris makes a startling admission in interview about the Covid injection side effect Myocarditis (The Platform Interview)

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Ομογενής καθηγήτρια από τη Νέα Ζηλανδία προειδοποιεί για την επόμενη πανδημία

Η άμεση καραντίνα που επέβαλλε η κυβέρνηση της Τζασίντα Άρντεν με την εμφάνιση των πρώτων κρουσμάτων στην χώρα ήταν το κλειδί για τη Νέα Ζηλανδία, ώστε να βγει νικήτρια στην μάχη με τον κορωνοϊό.

Αυτό υποστηρίζει η ομογενής αναπληρώτρια καθηγήτρια του Πανεπιστημίου του Auckland, Helen Petousis Harris, εκφράζοντας την ελπίδα της ο πλανήτης να είναι καλύτερα προετοιμασμένος στην επόμενη πανδημία.

Μιλώντας στο Ελληνικό Πρόγραμμα της Ραδιοφωνίας SBS, η καθηγήτρια Petousis Harris, που για 22 χρόνια εργάζεται στον τομέα της ασφάλειας και αποτελεσματικότητας των εμβολίων, υπογράμμισε πως η χώρα της επέβαλλε την καραντίνα, προτού τα κρούσματα αυξηθούν σημαντικά.

Αναφερόμενη στην επόμενη ημέρα η Helen Petousis Harris, είπε πως τα επόμενα βήματα θα πρέπει να είναι ιδιαίτερα προσεκτικά, καθώς η άφιξη νέων μολύνσεων από το εξωτερικό είναι πιθανή, χαρακτηρίζοντας την προσπάθεια που θα αναλάβουν οι χώρες του πλανήτη για τον έλεγχο του ιού, ως ιδιαίτερα δύσκολη.

«Πρέπει να κάνουμε τα βήματα αυτά με προσοχή, πραγματοποιώντας όσο περισσότερα διαγνωστικά τεστ μπορούμε, καθώς και να ιχνηλατούμε νέες μολύνσεις καθώς είναι πιθανόν να αφιχθούν αυτές από το εξωτερικό, ακόμη και αν λιγότεροι άνθρωποι ταξιδεύουν προς την χώρα. Αυτό θα είναι ιδιαίτερα δύσκολο, όπως είμαι σίγουρη είναι για την Αυστραλία και τον υπόλοιπο κόσμο, ο έλεγχος του COVID-19», είπε.

Η καθηγήτρια Petousis Harris, μίλησε και για την πιθανότητα ενός δεύτερου κύματος μολύνσεων, το οποίο χαρακτήρισε πιθανό, ενώ χρησιμοποιώντας ορολογία της πυγμαχίας είπε πως δεν θα πρέπει να χαμηλώσουμε την άμυνα μας, όπως έκαναν άλλες χώρες που με έκπληξη παρακολουθούν μια νέα αύξηση κρουσμάτων.

Ειδικότερα για το ενδεχόμενο μιας νέας πανδημίας, είπε πως αυτό πρέπει να θεωρείται δεδομένο, εκφράζοντας την ελπίδα της ο πλανήτης να είναι καλύτερα προετοιμασμένος, όταν αυτό έρθει.

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New Zealand could pull off bold goal of eliminating coronavirus

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While most countries are working on ways to contain the coronavirus, New Zealand has set itself a much more ambitious goal: eliminating it altogether.

And experts believe the country could pull it off.

The virus “doesn’t have superpowers,” said Helen Petousis-Harris, a vaccine expert at the University of Auckland. “Once transmission is stopped, it’s gone.”

Geography has helped. If any…

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New Zealand could eliminate coronavirus outbreak

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — While most countries are working on ways to contain the coronavirus, New Zealand has set itself a much more ambitious goal: eliminating it altogether.

And experts believe the country could pull it off.

The virus “doesn’t have superpowers,” said Helen Petousis-Harris, a vaccine expert at the University of Auckland. “Once transmission is stopped, it’s gone.”

Geograp…

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New Zealand could pull off bold goal of eliminating coronavirus

While most countries are working on ways to contain the coronavirus, New Zealand has set itself a much more ambitious goal: eliminating it altogether.

And experts believe the country could pull it off.

The virus “doesn’t have superpowers,” said Helen Petousis-Harris, a vaccine expert at the University of Auckland. “Once transmission is stopped, it’s gone.”

Geography has helped. If any place…

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — While most countries are working on ways to contain the coronavirus, New Zealand has set itself a much more ambitious goal: eliminating it altogether. And experts believe the country could pull it off. The virus “doesn’t have superpowers,” said Helen Petousis-Harris, a vaccine expert at the University of Auckland. “Once transmission […]

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Samoa Closes Schools as Measles Epidemic Kills at Least 16

Schools in the Pacific island nation of Samoa were closed indefinitely on Monday and children were barred from public gatherings amid a measles epidemic that has killed at least 16 people, many of them younger than age 2.

As Samoa, a country of about 200,000 people that is part of the same island chain as American Samoa, declared an emergency last week, health officials said they were “anticipating the worst to come.”

At least 1,174 potential cases of measles have been recorded, and 189 people have been hospitalized, the government said in a statement on Tuesday. In the last day alone, 114 cases were recorded and a 7-month-old infant died. Almost all of the cases are on the island of Upolu, with children below the age of 5 most severely affected.

Experts said the situation could worsen, and called the Samoan government’s response to the epidemic delayed.

“It’s as bad as you’re seeing and probably worse,” said Dr. Helen Petousis-Harris, a vaccinologist at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. “This is very much out of control.”

The epidemic has come as the immunization rate against measles has plummeted in Samoa in the years since a medical mistake led to the deaths of two infants and spurred widespread mistrust of vaccinations. In those cases, nurses mistakenly administered a vaccine mixed with an anaesthetic.

The immunization rate dropped to as low as 30 percent last year from about 60 percent in 2016, according to figures from the World Health Organization. By contrast, in Fiji, Tonga and American Samoa, where outbreaks have also been reported, about 90 percent of children have been immunized.

On Friday, the Samoan government declared that measles vaccinations would be mandatory, and that children under 17 barred from public gatherings and medical facilities unless sick. The National University of Samoa said that it had closed its campuses and would delay scheduled exams until further notice.

There has been a global resurgence of measles in the last several years, and in August the World Health Organization that the number of cases had almost tripled in a year. Officials have attributed the increase in part to poverty that has left many countries unable to vaccinate with sufficient regularity.

A number of measles cases in Samoa have been linked to New Zealand, the country’s former colonial power, which has been struggling with its own outbreak, Dr. Petousis-Harris said. Winston Peters, the New Zealand foreign affairs minister, said on Monday that would send 18 more vaccination nurses, for a total of 30, along with 3,000 units of the vaccine, to help contain the epidemic in the coming month.

Australia has also sent medical aid at the request of Samoan officials, according to the country’s health department. The Australians have sent 26 medical practitioners with urgent supplies and a portable intensive care unit.

Other Pacific governments have also acted. American Samoa declared a health emergency last week and said that travelers to American Samoa from Samoa must now provide proof of measles vaccination.

Sasha Gattermayr contributed reporting.

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Restart vaccination programme in Samoa

Restart vaccination programme in Samoa

Samoa’s health authorities are desperate for the whooping cough vaccination programme to resume.

Following the death of two babies, the programme was suspended in July and the nurses who administered the vaccinations have been stood down.

University of Auckland vaccinologist Dr Helen Petousis-Harris told NewsTalkZB News in July that one death, let alone two, was extremely rare, and there had…