Limits to compassion

Two people who were granted compassionate leave from quarantine after returning to NZ have been found to be infectious with COVID. How compassionate should we be in these circumstances? And how are our vaccines going to get us out of this situation?

A breath of fresh air

Where has the New Zealand COVID experiment got to in the last 5 weeks? In comparison to China, or Sweden, we’re looking pretty good. Which is why we are moving from Alert Level 4 to Level 3 for the next 2 weeks.

Musical variations & vaccines

A musical representation of COVID-19 was made using a tone for each amino acid in its DNA sequence. Sequencing COVID’s DNA is the key to creating an effective vaccine. Vaccine development is moving at breakneck speed – Oxford University has approval for a first Clinical Trial in late April.

Testing times

I met my first non-bubble person in a week today. This was ridiculously stressful. How soon will we have rapid tests to show whether people have COVID and vaccinations to prevent people getting it?