Hardly any of us listened when our conspiracy theorist friends and family tried to convince us the Government knew the risks but wasn’t telling us. The document explicitly advising against mandating the second jab never reached them. On another document, Verrall noted in the margins that there were safety concerns about the second jab. If not an outright apology, at least a small acknowledgement that they weren’t completely imagining things after all. Heather du Plessis-Allan is the Drive host for Newstalk ZB.

Source: Stuff March 15, 2026 04:03 UTC