In all seriousness, it was most likely easier to do it this way. There were also mrna trial groups, and various waves of "vaccination" efforts that didn't give a particularly clean starting point. There may also be optics involved as well, assuming they were just presenting the NZ data as provided by NZ, well then NZ wouldn't want to straight up say in their data that their was proportionally more covid fatalities in the vax population than the unvaxed. It looks very much like the article writer just lifted the charts out of the NZ documents.
Thanks that's what I was getting at really, trying to draw conclusions from government data seems kind of silly for this community. We have to dig deeper than that.
Why do they include numbers from March 2020 if the vaccine wasn't even readily available until mid 2021 in New Zealand?
To make the vax deaths not be at 90%~.
Right but I am talking about this article and not a government data set, doesn't really answer my question.
In all seriousness, it was most likely easier to do it this way. There were also mrna trial groups, and various waves of "vaccination" efforts that didn't give a particularly clean starting point. There may also be optics involved as well, assuming they were just presenting the NZ data as provided by NZ, well then NZ wouldn't want to straight up say in their data that their was proportionally more covid fatalities in the vax population than the unvaxed. It looks very much like the article writer just lifted the charts out of the NZ documents.
Thanks that's what I was getting at really, trying to draw conclusions from government data seems kind of silly for this community. We have to dig deeper than that.