OIAs expose Ministers suppressed youth myocarditis risks from public at un-minuted meeting

A bombshell collection of internal government files, calendar entries, and Official Information Act (OIA) responses has exposed active executive concealment of decisions about youth vaccine safety data at a meeting that included former Prime Ministers Jacinda Ardern and Chris Hipkins and other Ministers of the New Zealand government.

This was shortly before the government’s “Two Jabs for Summer” campaign which was designed to coerce young New Zealanders to get Covid mRNA shots.

“Instead of warning families about the risks from the mRNA shots for young people’s hearts, the government actively decided to hide important information and press ahead with its campaign that targeted our youth. It just defies belief” says Aly Cook from the NZ Outdoors and Freedom Party, who has spent months with party leader Sue Grey obtaining official information and piecing it together.

The documents track a critical timeline around Friday, 13 August 2021, the day the previous Labour Government finalised its strategy to enforce rigid two-dose vaccine mandates on adolescents aged 12 to 15, and discriminate against any New Zealanders who did not have a vaccine passport. The assembled evidence proves that senior Ministers were present at a high-stakes, unminuted zoom meeting where they decided to hide youth vaccine safety data from the public. “The decision to force vaccination on your people was so wrong” says Sue Grey.

“The government knew it was neither safe nor effective at preventing infection and transmission, yet they met and agreed to hide information about risks from their own experts. Whatever happened to informed consent, human rights or ethics? Then, when we started asking hard questions, we got contradicting formal government denials and altered public records in a failed and clumsy attempt to cover up their participation”.

Key Discoveries in the Leaked Timeline

• The Expert Warning (1 August 2021): Chief Health NZ Science Advisor Dr. Ian Town forwarded an urgent assessment from Professor David Skegg explicitly advising that it would be “sensible to defer making a decision” on the youth rollout until more clinical evidence was available.
• The Single-Dose Strategy (13 August 2021, 1:07 PM): Just 23 minutes before Ministers met, internal briefing bullet points prepared by Dr Town explicitly suggested a “one dose schedule in 12–15 year olds.”
• The Directive to Suppress (13 August 2021, 1:07 PM): The same briefing paper delivered a direct instruction to sanitise public messaging: “It was suggested that the wording around the potential benefit that an extended dosing interval may have with regard to myocarditis risk should be removed or re-worded…”
• The Concealed Meeting (13 August 2021, 1:30 PM): A Ministry of Health agenda confirms a “Vaccine Ministers Meeting” was locked in via Zoom, chaired by Hon Chris Hipkins and attended by PM Jacinda Ardern, Finance Minister Grant Robertson, and Health Minister Andrew Little to implement the 12–15 rollout strategy.

Subsequent OIA requests to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC) were met with flat denials, claiming records of such a meeting “do not exist.”

Exceeding the Failures of the Royal Commission

While the Royal Commission of Inquiry’s Phase Two Report heavily censured the state for structural flaws and a lack of transparency, this new evidence points to an active subversion of democratic oversight.

“The executive branch was directly driving a political narrative to suppress risk communication just minutes before sitting down to mandate a two-dose framework on our children,” says NZ Outdoors and Freedom Party Media Spokesperson Aly Cook. “They then took active steps to ensure no minutes were kept, diaries were fragmented, and formal OIA requests were falsely denied to hide the fact that they were ever in the room. Then MOH finally sends an Agenda that shows they were all in the meeting and it was chaired by Hipkins, Ardern was present, Little was present. Yet all of their diaries do not have this vital and important meeting and Robertson’s diary is altered on that meeting only and out of chronological order.This appears to move the needle from pandemic overreach into a calculated subversion of the public archive.”