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Tim Dower: Is it a big deal Health Ministry stuffed up the data of people vaccinated?
The Health Ministry is in the spotlight this morning, over the database it used to keep tabs on Covid vaccinations.
Apparently, the Ministry went with its usual 'we know best' approach.
At the time, the guys over at Stats NZ were saying, “here, use this database, it's much more up to date”.
Health of course said, “nah nah, we're good, we've got this one, we know best”.
End of the day, it looks like we've overstated the national Covid vaccination rate, although the Ministry says it's confident we'll still come out at more than 90 per cent.
Now I'll bet most people hearing this will be saying…
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