Right now in Aotearoa, Māori vaccination rates are around about just over 50 percent, comparatively to the rest of the population at just over 70 percent—about 74 percent today. In 1918, the Māori death rate from the Spanish flu, as it was called then, was around seven times that of non-Māori. In 1956, the pandemic that it was then—it was called the Asian flu pandemic—our Māori death rates were around six times that of non-Māori. 