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Baker says ‘FluTracking’ cut creates ‘surveillance gap’

Michael Baker criticises end of FluTracking

Epidemiologist Michael Baker has criticised the Ministry of Health’s decision to stop funding FluTracking New Zealand, claiming it will create a significant gap in monitoring respiratory illness.

The online survey tool, which cost about $57,000 a year, collected weekly data from roughly 40,000 participants on ‘flu-like symptoms’, testing and vaccination status, providing year-round insight into influenza, Covid-19 and RSV trends.

Baker said the programme was uniquely valuable because it captured data from people who never sought medical care, a large group missing from hospital, GP and laboratory reporting. He also highlighted its importance in enabling direct comparisons with Australia, where the system operates nationally.

Baker told state media the move as ‘short-sighted’, noting FluTracking was one of the most cost-effective surveillance tools available and could not be easily replaced.

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18 COMMENTS

  1. Get back in your little pop up Jack in the Box you clown… we will never listen to you or your ilk again..you all lied and created fear porn and you should be in jail for it… the damage done to this country and it’s people with your lies… so PISS OFF….you lying con….

  2. Popped him out of his Jack in the Box… a scary little clown… go away you sad little clown… we do not listen to the likes of you…

  3. If Baker is crying foul, then it’s a wise decision. How that cretin is still given a bullhorn by the media just shows how corrupt are these news outlets.

  4. Is this stooge a Mason, O.T.O, sworn a secret oath to Lucifer the Imposter. Can’t tell me this stooge is the real deal. Can he show anyone in the World the SARSCOV2 Virus aka Covid 19, isolated and purified and peer reviewed by 500x Scientist and Doctors. Nope. Even Big PHARMA had patents OUT for vaccines years before Covid 19 hoax. Bet you a Trillion dollars this stooge cant produce anything. Sub human, hell bound. Goodbye.

  5. WEF / WHO stooge bakerliar still struggling to be relevant.
    The only mask suitable for bakerliar is a nice new Scolds Bridle” – highly appropriate – and with a Mr Blobby cover so the steel bridle did not rust too quickly

    Or we could simply wrap bakerliar in a nice thick woolen blanket and throw him in a well than see if it floats??

    Keep the home fires burning of course.

  6. How does this clown still have gainful employment.

    He cannot even argue how face masks were beneficial when claiming such.

    He claimed/claims that boosters lower your chance of long covid.

    Rit hard

  7. This little creep acted as the pied piper and led many gullible kiwi’s to severe injury or death by his non stop pushing the covid kill shot. Jail is where he belongs.

  8. Dirty little prick! Mr so called clever ahole have ya noticed whose getting sick – THE JABBED! funny that – murdering piece of turd

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