According to Our World in Data, New Zealand achieved 75% coverage of the initial COVID-19 vaccination protocol (two doses) on December 29th 2021, when its Covid-related death toll was just 44, and 80% (tantamount in effect to universal adult coverage) on June 8th 2022, by which time deaths had risen to2,095. As at May 13th 2025, its death toll stood at 4,538. In other words, more than half of all New Zealand’s Covid deaths occurred after effectively universal adult vaccination had been achieved and a scarcely believable 99% after 75% of the country’s population had been double vaccinated.

Australia’s Department of Health advice on June 3rd 2025: COVID-19 vaccine is not recommended for healthy infants, children or adolescents who do not have medical conditions that increase their risk of severe illness. This is because the risk of severe illness was extremely low in this cohort over the course of the pandemic, and benefits of vaccination are not considered to outweigh the potential harms. And they are always right, even when they do a 180 degree about turn. And by now there is a wealth of literature indicating that natural immunity is both more robust and longer-lasting than the weaker and shorter protective efficacy of Covid vaccines (which also rather changes the harms-benefit equation for healthy people under 70).

Is it any wonder that a dramatic erosion of trust in public health institutions has lowered Australia’s childhood vaccinations to alarming levels, as the ABC reported on May 16th. This mirrors the situation in the UK, where the share of children being vaccinated against diseases, including measles and whooping cough, has likewise slumped to the lowest levels in more than a decade and below the 95% threshold said to be necessary for herd immunity.

Meanwhile in Japan, after examining an 18-million strong database, Dr Yasufumi Murakami, Professor at the prestigious Tokyo University and Vice-Director at its Research Centre for RNA Science, came to the sobering conclusion that “the more doses you get, the sooner you’re likely to die, within a shorter period”.¹

1. https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/japan-releases-bombshell-vax-vs-unvax ↩︎