Critics of the Post’s series told The Defender they questioned why exhaustive data analyses of excess deaths excluded 2020-2022 data, when major insurance companies in the U.S. and Germany reported that the biggest leap yet in all-cause mortality occurred in 2021, after the rollout of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.

“The obvious question is why would they focus mostly on data only up to 2019? And what is causing the huge rise in excess mortality especially among young people?” asked Silicon Valley entrepreneur and engineer Steve Kirsch, founder of the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation. “And why are so many people dying unexpectedly and it’s only happening to vaccinated people?”