Allowing for an increase in the population of New Zealand since 2019 of 269,000, excess deaths are running approximately 17% above 2019 rates and 24% higher than the excess death rate over the same six-week period in 2022. In other words, the rate of excess deaths appears to be accelerating. That should be alarming and certainly cause for discussion and analysis, but apparently, no one in authority cares. Quite the reverse actually, government experts are busy trying to hide what is going on. NZ vaccinologist Helen Petousis-Harris and epidemiologist Michael Baker have been giving interviews to the international press to refute widely circulating claims that the NZ excess deaths might be related to mRNA vaccination.