Afternoon roundup

Let's get these browser tabs back under control

• Shutting down a late-night food-truck because it's too popular and reducing options for celebrants isn't going to improve nightlife. Hi Auckland. 


• About one in four mild COVID cases wind up with brain damage. 


• Things true in a self-selected cross-section may not hold up in an RCT. Doubt you could get funding to run this as an RCT though. Well, maybe Loewenstein could.


• Businessdesk reports that investments tied to investor visa applications worth at least $3 billion are just sitting around at Immigration NZ, unprocessed. 


• I'd be less uncomfortable about this if there'd been smaller promising pilot studies with rigorous evaluation frameworks first. 


• Emma Vitz maps out how far a woman might need to travel in NZ to access abortion services.


• I've occasionally complained about Medsafe approval delays for vaccines. Wanna know how the booster for over-50s got authorised? It took an Act of Parliament. And they worried that "treating a fourth dose as other than "new medicine" undermines the scheme and purpose of the Medicines Act and the consent process under the Act." We're just not going to get vax for under-5s, or the updated formulations, in any reasonable amount of time with Medsafe as it is.