Last week, New Zealand’s Royal Commission into the COVID-19 Lessons Learned Phase Two undermined witnesses raising concerns about covid vaccine adverse effects, despite published scientific evidence. 

In the following, Dr. Guy Hatchard describes the significant relationship between the covid vaccine rollout and increased all-cause deaths in New Zealand and suggests that biotechnology experimentation, including gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology laboratory, is the ultimate cause of these excess deaths.  “Biotechnology experimentation is not saving lives; it is taking them,” he says.

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New Zealand’s Royal Commission into the covid pandemic Phase Two is focused on reviewing key decisions made by the government during 2021 and 2022, particularly regarding the use of vaccines, lockdowns, and testing and tracing technologies – “to be even better prepared for future pandemics.”

The report for Phase One was released in late November 2024.  Public hearings for Phase Two began on 7 July 2025.  The Commission is expected to deliver its Phase Two report by 26 February 2026.

In a statement to announce Phase Two, Inquiry Chair Professor Tony Blakely and Commissioner John Whitehead said, “We would like to acknowledge the tremendous contribution made by the many individuals, communities, and organisations … and the thousands of people who shared their experiences and feedback … Thank you for trusting us with your COVID-19 experience.” 

After reading Dr. Hatchard’s article below, we think they’ll find that people have not trusted them with their “covid-19 experience.”  They have done what good citizens should do: engage with the democratic process in the hope that the truth will be uncovered.  The citizens have done their duty; the Commission should now do theirs.

Who is to Blame?

The concerning spectacle last week of the public hearings of the Royal Commission on the covid pandemic Phase Two deserves some analysis.

By Dr. Guy Hatchard, 13 July 2025

The counsels for the Commission appeared determined to undermine or even attack the credibility of witnesses raising concerns about the covid vaccine. Clearly, the published scientific evidence of adverse effects was not being taken seriously or had not yet been studied in detail. At one point, the Commission’s counsel suggested that the temporal association between the vaccination date and adverse effects, including deaths, was insufficient to prove causality. The apparent intention was to create doubt when, actually, there is virtual scientific certainty. Those giving evidence acquitted themselves well despite being deliberately restricted from citing examples. However, inevitably, we were left with the perception, real or not, that those guiding the Commission process had already made up their minds, if not the Commissioners themselves.

The Raw Official Figures for All Cause Deaths in New Zealand

During 2020 and most of 2021, there were virtually zero cases of covid infection in New Zealand. This was well controlled by tight border closures, quarantine, lockdowns, and efficient track and tracing. As a result, New Zealand largely escaped the more serious alpha and delta variants of covid. We also escaped seasonal influenza. Therefore, all cause deaths in 2020 were well below the historical average, more than 2,000 below the expected number. Near identical measures continued for the majority of 2021, except for Pfizer mRNA covid vaccinations, which began in March. There was little covid and little influenza in 2021, but deaths rose in tandem with the vaccine rollout to pre-pandemic levels and above.

Was this caused by the vaccinations? There are many indications that this was the case. The Hatchard Report completed a time series analysis comparing weekly vaccinations and all-cause deaths among over 60s in 2021 and found a positive, significant relationship. This effect size is commensurate with the data on deaths leaked by Health New Zealand IT employee turned whistle-blower, Barry Young. Peaks of deaths correspond with peaks in vaccination rates. In 2022 and 2023, this kind of correspondence continued during the peak administration of covid vaccine boosters. Multiple subsequent published scientific studies in a number of journals and countries have connected covid vaccination with increases in a range of potentially fatal conditions, including heart conditions, immune deficiency, mental deterioration and neurological illness. All of these papers have been submitted to the Commission.

As time rolled on, excess deaths beyond the historical rates continued at high levels and accumulated. By 2022, the cumulative totals far outweighed any effect of the low death rate in 2020. By 2025, the cumulative total of excess deaths now stands at 7,348, even after the effect of a rising population is accounted for. No one on either side of the argument disputes this total. The number of deaths directly caused by covid during the period 2020 to 2025 is estimated to be around 3,000. So, what caused the other approximately 4,000 deaths? Herein lies the central misunderstanding which surfaced during the Commission hearings. For various reasons, some people still feel against accumulating evidence that almost all the New Zealand excess deaths must have been covid infection-related, rather than due to adverse effects of covid vaccinations. The Commissioners and their counsels, who are not scientifically qualified, may find themselves caught between these two opposing views which are being vigorously promoted, not just in New Zealand but around the world, by their respective proponents.

Let’s pause here and step back to the bigger picture. Intelligence services around the world, along with a significant cohort of independent expert scientific opinion, have concluded from the epidemiological evidence and genetic analysis of the covid virus that it originated at and escaped from a virology laboratory in Wuhan, China. Whether this is beyond doubt or almost certain is immaterial at this point; the implications of this need to be considered very seriously. It is certainly now established that researchers at Wuhan were conducting gain-of-function research to make deadly versions of coronaviruses. They apparently succeeded. If this is the case, as seems highly probable, all 7,348 excess deaths in New Zealand were caused by biotechnology experimentation. In this light, the pyrotechnics at the Royal Commission hearings last week appear to be the result of an immature understanding of what is at stake. The counsels for the Commission were attacking witnesses with whom they should have been taking common cause. Whether it was the vaccine or covid or both, it was all caused by biotechnology experimentation. From this perspective, all 5 million of us are victims.

Moreover, the current initiative of the New Zealand government to deregulate biotechnology appears to be a disastrous course of action. We need to dig deeper into this to find out how it is that our nation, which has just lost, and is still losing, many of our best, has been left with a population divided and blaming each other while our government is rewarding the real culprits with extra plaudits, powers, freedoms, resources and money. There are even some who submitted to or appeared before the Commission who suggested that the protections contained in the New Zealand Bill of Rights were and are an impediment to Government policy. This is a perspective worthy of 1930s Germany which should be opposed and rejected outright.

If you sit down with a mind uncluttered by the pressures of the last few years, it is clear that some biotechnologists were recklessly and deliberately creating a deadly disease. The risks involved should have been clear even to a passing evaluation. In this light, we have to conclude that those involved were not just criminals but rather had a complete disregard for the safety of the human race. They were prepared to endanger its survival. But it wasn’t just a few people; gain-of-function research was being widely undertaken and still is. Embedded within the biotechnology industry is a desire to push experimentation in reckless directions far beyond the boundaries of current knowledge and in the face of obvious risks. Moreover, it is widely known that the consequences of genetic modification cannot be contained, recalled or remediated.

It seems there are people living in plain sight within our society for whom the risk or, in some cases, even the desirability of disaster, death and destruction have become normalised. This is certainly true of the armaments industry and now appears true of what is wrongly paraded as a new wave of beneficial medical biotechnology fraught with high rates of adverse effects, including death and long-term serious consequences. The linkage between military strategy and biotechnology experimentation is known. In April 2024, a team of biodefence experts gathered in Washington, D.C., to prepare for the unthinkable – biowarfare on a global scale. Yet around the world, we are being schooled to believe that those involved are our saviours.

Behind the theatre of the Royal Commission hearings, there is a lesson to be learned. Biotechnology experimentation is not saving lives; it is taking them. These are strong words, but there are hard facts in need of rational discussion and recognition. So far, it seems the Commission is not capable of entertaining this central lesson of the pandemic.

The Hatchard Report has requested a meeting with the Commissioners but received no reply.

About the Author

Guy Hatchard, PhD, is a New Zealander who was formerly a senior manager at Genetic ID, a global food testing and safety company (now known as FoodChain ID). 

You can subscribe to Dr. Hatchard’s websites HatchardReport.com and GLOBE.GLOBAL for regular updates by email. GLOBE.GLOBAL is a website dedicated to providing information about the dangers of biotechnology.  You can also follow Dr. Hatchard on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE.

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