Despite mass jabbing, we’re losing the First Covid War. Must we suffer a second? By Guy Hatchard The writer is in New Zealand NEW Zealand is ‘losing the arms race’ with the Covid virus, one of its leading epidemiologists has warned. Professor Michael Baker revealed that in a recent period cases had increased by 50 per cent within nine days. In an interview with the NZ Herald , he said: ‘It’s a dynamic, a battle between us and the virus and there are factors mainly favouring the virus.’ The article reported that hospitals were overwhelmed. NZ data shows that Covid cases and hospitalisations are decreasing among the unvaccinated, but increasing among the vaccinated. Incredibly, though, Baker called for new mRNA vaccines to be rolled out urgently. By contrast, Professor John Gibson, an economist at Waikato University, has published a paper showing that not only are boosters ineffective, but the excess mortality in New Zealand points to a serious health deficit among the vaccina