New Zealand First is calling for a select committee inquiry into the injuries that the mandated double-dose of the COVID-19 vaccine may have caused to the hundreds of thousands of potentially affected New Zealanders.
The recent Covid Inquiry Report did not go far enough into the effects of the vaccine safety, what those risks were, and more importantly who has been affected.
However, this report has brought to light a number of concerning issues including the fact that advice was not shared with the public about the risks involved with the double-dose vaccine mandates for 12-17year olds.
If the official advice was passed to ministers who ignored that advice, and the public did not know the significant risks of taking those vaccines, someone needs to be held accountable.
The Crown needs to know how widespread any effects of those known risks that were mandated on the New Zealanders but specifically those young people.
The downstream health effects could be disastrous with the report identifying myocarditis as a specific health consequence.
Those vaccine injured need a voice and the ability to publicly give evidence to the Crown, and New Zealanders need to know what impacts this has had on the trust in our health system.
The whole point of the Covid Inquiry was to hold decision makers accountable and to ensure we learn lessons for the future so we don't make the same mistakes.
This further step of a select committee inquiry will provide those answers.
