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By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPHThroughout the pandemic I have greatly respected the work of Canadian quantitative scientist Dr Denis Rancourt from Ottawa. Finally, I landed him on Focal Points after we had lunch at the Allison Inquiry in Canada’s Parliament.🎙️ Focal Points: McCullough Interviews Denis RancourtDr. Peter McCullough hosts interdisciplinary scientist Dr. Denis Rancourt — a physicist by training who worked across biogeochemistry, measurement methods, soil science, and marine sediment nutrient cycles — for a wide-ranging discussion centered on his testimony at the CanadianAllison Inquiryon Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Canada.🔬 Background: The Career RebelTrained as a physicist, but worked across multiple faculties; taught a unique graduate course on diffraction, spectroscopy, and microscopy methodsHismost-cited paperscover the theory of spectroscopy, soil science and nutrient evolution, and marine/lake sediment nutrient cyclesDismissed from academia in 2009over an academic-freedom dispute; his union fought for roughly a decade to reach a settlement. The dismissal was covered nationally in Canada and twice in theNew York TimesSays this history gave him a“nose for lies and constructed narratives”— he describes himself as easily able to recognize propaganda and be critical of institutionsTurned to COVID analysis in 2020; published a June 2, 2020 paper arguing mortality peaks had to stem frommistreatment in homes and hospitals, not the virus itselfWorks withCorrelation-Canada.org,alongside Marine Baudin (France), Jeremy Mercier, and physicist Joseph Hickey — roughly30 large reportson mortality to date🗂️ Data FoundationsRancourt’s approach deliberatelyignores assigned cause of deathand works only from hard all-cause mortality counts:CDC WonderandStatistics Canadaprovide death counts, ages, sexes, and jurisdictions — solid, even if death certificates are flawedCOVID “scoreboards” werenotdeath-certificate data — they were test-positive-plus-death feeds, a convention in infectious disease epidemiology (only ~15% of influenza-positive deaths are adjudicated as due to influenza pneumonia)Rancourt’s key premise:whatever the assigned cause, the timing and scale of death spikes is the signal📈 Part One: The Mortality Signals🤰 Maternal Mortality (US)CDC issued an advisory onAugust 11, 2021directing vaccination of pregnant womenin any trimester— shown as the red dashed line on the slideIn “poor states” (12%+ poverty threshold), maternal mortalityshot up immediatelyafter that date — a roughlythreefold increaseon a per-live-birth basisAsecond peakcoincided with the additional-dose and booster rolloutRancourt:“In my humble opinion, that cannot be a coincidence”McCullough adds context: pregnant women wereexcluded from the randomized trials; roughly 3,000 pregnant American women — largely nurses — were vaccinated in the first week of the rollout, before mandates existed. ACOGstillrecommends vaccination at any point in pregnancy as of 2026. McCullough said peak vaccination rates for pregnant women hit 60% by the end of 2021👶 Infant Mortality — The Nine-Month LagHoyert et al, NCHS reportedrecord maternal mortality in 2021, erasing roughly two decades of improvement; ~60% of pregnant women were vaccinated, but only 10% took the shots while gravidNine months afterthe August 2021 advisory — i.e., the first-trimester cohort coming to term — astepwise increase in infant mortalityappears in both male and female infantsThe increase corresponds to roughly4,000 excess infant deathsin the US versus the historic trendAll-cause infant deaths and ICD-10 P00–P96 deathsagree completely— the two curves overlapCanada: same pattern following its own May 28, 2021 directive; ~200 excess infant deathsCanada also saw ~27,000 excess induced abortionsafter the vaccination push — Rancourt speculates fear of fetal defects may have driven this🧒 Toddlers and PreschoolersUS mortality forages 1–4shows a long, regular historic decline — then a sharp break2021: first increase, coinciding with abrupt cuts to financial support in half the states2022: the largest jump — the year vaccines were approved down tosix months of age (June 17, 2022)Roughly2,000 excess toddler deathsin the USCanadashows the same pattern across ages 1–4, 5–9, and 10–14 — withno financial-cut confounder— beginning in the year vaccines were approved for those groups and persisting afterward🧬 Cancer Mortality“Turbo cancer” is known in the literature ashyperprogressive disease, documented since ~2015 in connection with immune-therapy drugs —300+ articlesIn ages5–44, a stepwise increase in all-cancer mortality corresponds to4,000+ excess cancer deathsIn ages5–24,960 excess cancer deathsafter vaccination — not in 2020 or 2021, but later, during mass vaccination of that groupRarelong-bone/limb cancersin ages 5–24 show a dramatic upshoot beginning in 2022Multiple primary tumors(distinct primaries across different organs) in ages 75+ correspond to ~1,500 excess deathsMcCullough notes the current NCI director publicly denies any rise in cancer mortality —“I just showed proof that it has gone up significantly... from their own data”🏥 Part Two: Societal HarmP-score excess mortality by province tracks GDP per capita— economically active, wealthy provinces suffered most when economies were shut downHot spots of death worldwide are wherepoor people live near rich people(New York, London, Montreal’s core)Excess mortality correlates with thefraction of large hospitalsin a province“Protecting the elderly”— lockdown and isolation intensity — wasimmediately followed by large mortality peaks in the 85+ group, then negative mortality afterward (a culling/dry-tinder effect). Rancourt:“It caused death.”🧪 Mechanism: The Cationic LipidsRancourt singles outcationic lipid nanoparticlesand theirknown toxicityas the limiting factor in their applications. McCullough notes VAERS recorded roughly1,100 deaths the day of injectionand1,200 the next dayin US data — consistent with acute lipid nanoparticle toxicity — while deaths years later show vaccine mRNA and spike protein as the cause of long pandemic syndromes.🚨 The Call for Stratified DataThis is the crux, and both men press it hard:The CDC and the Public Health Agency of Canada both hold mortality data and COVID-19 vaccination status data — separatelyNeither merges them. Neither permits independent researchers to merge them.Rancourt and colleagues, along with Steve Kirsch, have formallywritten for access. Denied.Only one country is understood to have merged the datasets — theCzech Republic— and Rancourt notes“it’s not good news”Without vaccination status on death records, the strongest possible analysis —all-cause mortality stratified by dose count (0, 1, 2, 3, 4+)— cannot be performed by anyone outside the agenciesMcCullough’s framing:“Our National Cancer Institute and CDC will not do these analyses.”The counterfactual “lives saved” literature, Rancourt argues, is built onmade-up counterfactuals— every one his team has audited has fallen apart under scrutiny.🧭 Closing ArgumentsRancourt’s conclusion slide:“History is going to record that this COVID period was a massive, unnecessary, really avoidable assault against people.”Science never proves causality — but institutional capture can always invalidate screaming safety signals.McCullough’s tactical advice:one point per paper. Get the maternal/fetal mortality paper out, two countries, one result. Rancourt counters that his reports and slides are published with DOIs atCorrelation-Canada.org— data available to anyone, interpretation laid out, ready for others to carry into peer-reviewed journals.The bottom line:the data exist, the signals are visible in hard mortality records, and the agencies that could settle the question in an afternoon by merging two databases they already own are refusing to do it — or to let anyone else do it.📌 What the Research Would Look LikeIf NIH and CDC (and PHAC) wanted to end the debate, they would:Mergenational mortality records with COVID-19 vaccination registriesStratifyall-cause mortality by dose count:0, 1, 2, 3, 4+ dosesBreak results out byage band, sex, pregnancy status, and time since last doseRelease thede-identified datasetto independent researchers for replicationUntil that happens, Rancourt’s temporal-association analyses remain the most rigorous population-level work available — and the refusal to merge the data remains the most telling fact in the entire episode.📝Please subscribe to FOCAL POINTS as a paying ($5 monthly) or founder member so we can continue to bring you the truth.AlterAImay be used to assist in searches, synthesis, and review.Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPHPresident, McCullough FoundationFOCAL POINTS has partnered withAlterAIto support independent research and open inquiry. Subscribe toAlterAItoday and get a discount on unbiased and accurate AI!ReferencesRancourt, D. G. (2026, September 8). Video of Denis G Rancourt expert-witness testimony to the Allison Inquiry (8 September 2026) - Pregnancy, infant, toddler and accelerated cancer excess mortalities [Video recording]. Zenodo. Allison Inquiry, Ottawa, Canada.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22728061Rancourt, D. G. (2026, September 8). Denis G Rancourt expert-witness presentation slides to the Allison Inquiry (8 September 2026) - Pregnancy, infant, toddler and accelerated cancer excess mortalities. Zenodo. Allison Inquiry, Ottawa, Canada.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22676709https://correlation-canada.org/rancourt-expert-witness-presentation-to-the-allison-inquiry/