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BREAKING: 98% of Excess Deaths in Highly Vaccinated Australian Regions Were NOT From COVID-19

  • Independent News Roundup By Independent News Roundup
  • Feb 18, 2026

Study finds four Australian regions with little COVID and brief lockdowns saw excess deaths surge after 90%+ COVID "vaccine" uptake in 2021.

by Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

Yesterday, Raphael Lataster published an ecological analysis in the International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine examining excess mortality in Australia during 2021. Australia provided something rare: a real-world natural experiment. Several regions — Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, and the Northern Territory — had very low COVID circulation in 2021, avoided prolonged lockdowns, yet injected nearly their entire adult populations with experimental shots.

By the end of 2021, vaccination coverage (≥1 dose, age 16+) was:

  • Queensland: 90.8%
  • Western Australia: 92.1%
  • South Australia: 92.5%
  • Northern Territory: 89.3%

These regions vaccinated rapidly and thoroughly — despite having little COVID spread. Then excess deaths surged.

Queensland

361 excess deaths in 2021.
Only 4 were classified as deaths “from or with COVID.”
99% of excess deaths were not attributed to COVID.

Western Australia

140 excess deaths.
0 COVID deaths.
100% of excess deaths occurred without COVID attribution.

South Australia

68 excess deaths.
4 COVID deaths.
94% of excess deaths were not COVID.

Northern Territory

76 excess deaths.
2 COVID deaths.
97% were not COVID-related.

Combined

Across these four regions in 2021:

  • Total excess deaths: 645
  • Total deaths classified as “from or with COVID”: 10

That means 635 of 645 excess deaths — 98.4% — were not attributed to COVID.

In these four regions in 2021:

COVID-19 mortality declined.
Lockdowns were brief and limited.
Vaccination rates exceeded 89% in every region.
Excess mortality rose sharply.

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.

This study helps to explain why the United States experienced an estimated 470,000–840,000 mRNA “vaccine” deaths:

Forcing an entire population to produce non-human, pathogenic proteins inside their bodies comes with consequences.


Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

Epidemiologist and Foundation Administrator, McCullough Foundation

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