All posts by David Welch
New Zealand’s latest COVID wave is levelling off, with fewer people in hospital than feared
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. New Zealand has likely passed the peak of the most recent COVID-19 wave, thanks to strong hybrid immunity in the community and with the number of hospitalisations at the lower end of what was originally expected. The seven-day…
As New Zealand’s Omicron infections rise rapidly, genome surveillance is shifting gears
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Genomic sequencing has been a key tool throughout Aotearoa’s COVID-19 pandemic, with data generated here now part of the 8.5 million genomes shared globally. It has helped us understand how cases arrived here and the extent of community…