Michael Plank Testifies to Royal Commission of Inquiry

Professor Michael Plank, an applied mathematician from the University of Canterbury, testified to the Royal Commission of Inquiry on Friday 11 July 2025 https://www.covid19lessons.royalcommission.nz/the-inquiry/public-hearings/public-hearings-session-one-perspectives-on-the-pandemic

He was asked to talk about his Covid-19 mathematical models. You can read the published work here:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.09679v1
and here:
https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/54/4/dyaf093/8163015?login=false

Our medical team have questions about Professor Plank's modeling, especially the underlying assumptions around infection fatality rates and vaccine efficacy.

For example, in his Metacritique of Influential Studies Purporting COVID-19 Vaccine Successes: Part 1 - Watson et al, Dr Raphael Lataster concludes:
Watson et al has been central in shaping the dominant narrative that COVID-19 vaccines have saved tens of millions of lives worldwide. However, a closer examination reveals a web of flawed methodological assumptions, unsupported estimates, and under-discussed risks—factors that substantially undermine this conclusion.
https://journalofindependentmedicine.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/ima-jim-v01-n02-a07-metacritique-of-influential-studies-purporting-covid-19-vaccine-successes-part-1-watson-et-al.pdf