Claim: Excess deaths in New Zealand increased by 3203 per cent from 2020 to 2022 due to COVID-19 vaccines.
Fact-check: Excess deaths claim undone by 'nonsensical' calculation
Verdict: false. excess deaths changed from -0.5 per cent in 2020 to 17.3 per cent in 2022. there is no evidence the increase was due to vaccines.
Organisation: Australian Associated Press
Author: Kate Atkinson
Date published: 2023-02-27T00:00:00