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Investigations
The Study Being Used to Close the Vaccine-Death Question Can't Rule Out Zero Excess Deaths in New Zealand
New Zealand's headline pandemic death study was co-authored by one of the country's most visible COVID modellers, and its four-year estimate runs from 1,134 fewer deaths than expected to 2,927 more. The modellers are calling it settled.
Infectious DiseaseCzech Trust in Government Fell to 19 Percent. Eight to Ten Weeks Later, the Death Rate Pulled Away from Austria's.
A populist government overstated its testing, cycled through health ministers, and governed by press conference. Czechs stopped believing it, and a new analysis ties that collapse of faith to a death rate that ran roughly twice the European average.
Infectious DiseaseFive Years After COVID, Japan Is Still Dying at Pandemic Rates, and Confirmed COVID Explains Only a Tenth
Japan's excess deaths peaked at 7.55 percent in 2022 and still ran at 5.76 percent through 2023, after Tokyo downgraded COVID to a routine infectious disease, in one of the most heavily mRNA-dosed countries on earth.