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Thomas Lumley, Professor of Biostatistics, University of Auckland

Most COVID patients in NZ's Omicron outbreak are vaccinated, but that's no reason to doubt vaccine benefits

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New Zealand’s Omicron wave may be peaking, but we’ll continue to record thousands of new cases each day and most people who test positive or are hospitalised with COVID will have been vaccinated.

This is exactly what we should expect and it’s no reason to doubt vaccine effectiveness.

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