Andrew appeared as an expert witness at the Waitangi Tribunal enquiry into the government's COVID-19 response, and his comments featured multiple times in the final report.

Andrew's Expert Witness Comments in the Waitangi Tribunal Report on the COVID-19 response

In January, Andrew was interviewed by Nathan Morton at [stuff.co.nz](https://stuff.co.nz) on COVID-19 case numbers and testing:

> When we will reach 1000 cases, according to modeller Andrew Sporle at iNZight Analytics, is too early to tell.
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> Sporle believes the back-to-back long weekends will create a lag in testing, which means a likely delay in finding out just how many actually have the Omicron variant.
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> “It gets a little tricky as we need to reach 1000 cases, not number of infections, and for cases you need a test. For some people, they're lucky to have mild symptoms and aren’t sick enough to think “Oh, I’ll go get a test now,”.


Covid-19 modellers uncertain when to expect move to stage 2 of Omicron outbreak strategy

In January, Andrew was interviewed by Stuff's Maxine Jacobs on the limitations of COVID-19 modelling and the progression of the pandemic for Māori:

He has predicted the worst, hoped for the best, and was pleasantly surprised at how Aotearoa has flattened both curves of the Alpha and Delta variants.

“We have outperformed the model.”

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