{"id":63514,"date":"2026-02-17T09:28:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T22:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=63514"},"modified":"2026-02-17T09:29:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T22:29:59","slug":"breaking-98-of-excess-deaths-in-highly-vaccinated-australian-regions-were-not-from-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=63514","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: 98% of Excess Deaths in Highly Vaccinated Australian Regions Were NOT From COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63516\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Australian_Excess_Deaths_2021.jpg\" alt=\"Australian Excess Deaths 2021\" width=\"1100\" height=\"1081\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Australian_Excess_Deaths_2021.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Australian_Excess_Deaths_2021-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Australian_Excess_Deaths_2021-1024x1006.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Australian_Excess_Deaths_2021-768x755.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Study finds four Australian regions with little COVID and brief lockdowns saw excess deaths surge after 90%+ COVID &#8220;vaccine&#8221; uptake in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Raphael Lataster published an ecological analysis in the International Journal of Risk &amp; Safety in Medicine examining excess mortality in Australia during 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Australia provided something rare: a real-world natural experiment. Several regions \u2014 Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, and the Northern Territory \u2014 had very low COVID circulation in 2021, avoided prolonged lockdowns, yet injected nearly their entire adult populations with experimental shots.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of 2021, vaccination coverage (\u22651 dose, age 16+) was:<\/p>\n<p>Queensland: 90.8%<\/p>\n<p>Western Australia: 92.1%<\/p>\n<p>South Australia: 92.5%<\/p>\n<p>Northern Territory: 89.3%<\/p>\n<p>These regions vaccinated rapidly and thoroughly \u2014 despite having little COVID spread. Then excess deaths surged.<br \/>\nQueensland<\/p>\n<p>361 excess deaths in 2021.<br \/>\nOnly 4 were classified as deaths \u201cfrom or with COVID.\u201d<br \/>\n99% of excess deaths were not attributed to COVID.<br \/>\nWestern Australia<\/p>\n<p>140 excess deaths.<br \/>\n0 COVID deaths.<br \/>\n100% of excess deaths occurred without COVID attribution.<br \/>\nSouth Australia<\/p>\n<p>68 excess deaths.<br \/>\n4 COVID deaths.<br \/>\n94% of excess deaths were not COVID.<br \/>\nNorthern Territory<\/p>\n<p>76 excess deaths.<br \/>\n2 COVID deaths.<br \/>\n97% were not COVID-related.<br \/>\nCombined<\/p>\n<p>Across these four regions in 2021:<\/p>\n<p>Total excess deaths: 645<\/p>\n<p>Total deaths classified as \u201cfrom or with COVID\u201d: 10<\/p>\n<p>That means 635 of 645 excess deaths \u2014 98.4% \u2014 were not attributed to COVID.<\/p>\n<p>In these four regions in 2021:<\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 mortality declined.<br \/>\nLockdowns were brief and limited.<br \/>\nVaccination rates exceeded 89% in every region.<br \/>\nExcess mortality rose sharply.<\/p>\n<p>When high COVID burden and prolonged lockdown confounders are removed, what remains is mass vaccination. In these four regions, the sequence is unmistakable: rapid, near-universal vaccine rollout followed by a measurable spike in excess deaths.<\/p>\n<p>This study helps to explain why the United States experienced an estimated 470,000\u2013840,000 mRNA \u201cvaccine\u201d deaths:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63515\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/US_Vaccine_Deaths.jpg\" alt=\"US Covid Vaccine Deaths\" width=\"573\" height=\"109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/US_Vaccine_Deaths.jpg 573w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/US_Vaccine_Deaths-300x57.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Forcing an entire population to produce non-human, pathogenic proteins inside their bodies comes with consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/petermcculloughmd\/p\/breaking-98-of-excess-deaths-in-highly\">https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/petermcculloughmd\/p\/breaking-98-of-excess-deaths-in-highly<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study finds four Australian regions with little COVID and brief lockdowns saw excess deaths surge after 90%+ COVID &#8220;vaccine&#8221; uptake in 2021. Yesterday, Raphael Lataster published an ecological analysis in the International Journal of Risk &amp; Safety in Medicine examining excess mortality in Australia during 2021. Australia provided something rare: a real-world natural experiment. Several &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=63514\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BREAKING: 98% of Excess Deaths in Highly Vaccinated Australian Regions Were NOT From COVID-19&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63514"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63519,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63514\/revisions\/63519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}