NOTE: Information courtesy of the NZ Herald until it is publicly released by the Ministry of Health.
Vaccine status of the 2020-2022 MMR catch-up campaign:
- July 2020 = the New Zealand Government launches an MMR/measles immunisation catch-up campaign to reach 300,000 unvaccinated 15 to 30-year-olds
- ~400,000 MMR vaccines were purchased/made available, and $40 million was allocated for the rollout costs (later revised to $26m) to ensure success.
- March 2021 = ~20,000 MMR vaccines (5%) had been administered by this date. District health boards were directed to refocus on the Covid response.
- November 2021 = the campaign was supposed to resume. It did not.
- February 2022 = ~150,000 vaccines expired and were destroyed. Value = $3.75 million.
- March 2022 = ~170,000 more vaccines expire and will be destroyed. Value = $4.25 million.
- TOTAL = ~320,000 vaccines (80%) expired and destroyed. Value = $8 million.
- Health cost = unknown.
- Environmental cost = unknown.
More childhood vaccination data is available via the NZ Herald article.
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NOTES:
- The data appears to have been passed from the Minister of Health’s office to the National Party Spokesperson for Health’s office. It does not appear on the Ministry of Health’s OIA requests page. We will request this data.
- All numbers are provisional and subject to revision.
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SOURCE:
Data published by The New Zealand Herald
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