by Alia | Feb 10, 2021 | COVID-19
This week I read yet another article about the benefits of Vitamin D (and others). It can be frustrating to keep banging on about something that’s had good science behind it for a while now but is still being ignored, especially when it could be helping so many... 
by Alia | Feb 9, 2021 | COVID-19 Vaccines
Last week Medsafe gave provisional consent to the new, experimental COVID vaccine from Pfizer for New Zealand. The rollout is set to begin in late March, with frontline staff being first in the queue. Many Kiwis, along with our PM and the usual cohort of... 
by Alia | Jan 25, 2021 | COVID-19
The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 has caused massive disruption to most people’s lives – and loss of life around the world from Covid-19. However, one of the positives of the pandemic has been the dedicated research into ways to prevent and treat this new viral... 
by Alia | Jan 12, 2021 | COVID-19 Vaccines
This morning Stuff published an article discussing the calls from The Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology to immediately pause the rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Their concern? They believe it may not be effective enough to create herd immunity. The... 
by Alia | Jan 10, 2021 | COVID-19
WATCH NOW Claire, Alia & Libby from Voices For Freedom chat with Dr Alison Goodwin about her passion for lifestyle medicine and her thoughts on New Zealand’s Covid-19 response. . We discuss the significant challenges Alison sees for our health care system,... 
by Alia | Dec 19, 2020 | COVID-19, COVID-19 Vaccines
We’ve heard a lot from our authorities here in NZ that the CV vaccines won’t be mandatory. Many of us know that much of this rhetoric boils down to semantics and there’s a likelihood of coercion entering the mix, with potential restrictions being... 