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The architect of NZ s elimination strategy Newsroom 29/12/2020 © Provided by Newsroom In July, Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield announced his rugby nickname for a casual match against the Parliamentary XV would be the eliminator , but it was epidemiologist Michael Baker who pushed the Government to adopt elimination in the first place. He spoke to Newsroom about advocacy through the media and the curse of short-termism. Michael Baker figures he was the first public health expert in the world to talk about eliminating Covid-19, though he s not sure why. Using that terminology which is straight from the infectious disease 101, it s a really standard term, he tells Newsroom during a recent interview in Newtown, near the University of Otago s Wellington campus.

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