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[TexasLisa]

For those who believe in science, you might like to read this:

Johns Hopkins Study Saying COVID-19 Has 'Relatively No Effect on Deaths' in U.S. Deleted After Publication

 

[Beekissed]

Here, Miss Lisa....I'll put it right out there in black and white, copied from your link....and wonder who will, presented with facts, still deny the truth of it all.

Johns Hopkins Study Saying COVID-19 Has 'Relatively No Effect on Deaths' in U.S. Deleted After Publication


by MATT MARGOLIS NOV 27, 2020 11:24 AM ET

Conventional wisdom is that COVID-19 has caused thousands of deaths in the United States and nearly 1.5 million worldwide. This perception has been directly challenged by a study published by Johns Hopkins University on Sunday, November 22.

Genevieve Briand, assistant program director of the Applied Economics master’s degree program at Johns Hopkins University, critically analyzed the impact that COVID-19 had on U.S. deaths. According to her, the impact of COVID-19 on deaths in the United States can be fully understood by comparing it to the number of total deaths in the country.

According to study, “in contrast to most people’s assumptions, the number of deaths by COVID-19 is not alarming. In fact, it has relatively no effect on deaths in the United States.”
Wait, what? Really?

That’s what it says. And, it should come as no surprise that not long after the study was published it was deleted within days.

Luckily, a back-up copy remains on The Wayback Machine, and we can still read the study.
So, how exactly did the study conclude that COVID-19 has had “relatively no effect on deaths”? Here’s how the study made this determination:

After retrieving data on the CDC website, Briand compiled a graph representing percentages of total deaths per age category from early February to early September, which includes the period from before COVID-19 was detected in the U.S. to after infection rates soared.

Surprisingly, the deaths of older people stayed the same before and after COVID-19. Since COVID-19 mainly affects the elderly, experts expected an increase in the percentage of deaths in older age groups. However, this increase is not seen from the CDC data. In fact, the percentages of deaths among all age groups remain relatively the same.

According to Briand, “The reason we have a higher number of reported COVID-19 deaths among older individuals than younger individuals is simply because every day in the U.S. older individuals die in higher numbers than younger individuals.”

Briand’s analysis found that the range of deaths amongst the older population has remained within the range of past years.

So, if COVID-19 has actually had no significant impact on U.S. deaths, why does it not appear that way?

To answer that question, Briand shifted her focus to the deaths per causes ranging from 2014 to 2020. There is a sudden increase in deaths in 2020 due to COVID-19. This is no surprise because COVID-19 emerged in the U.S. in early 2020, and thus COVID-19-related deaths increased drastically afterward.

Analysis of deaths per cause in 2018 revealed that the pattern of seasonal increase in the total number of deaths is a result of the rise in deaths by all causes, with the top three being heart disease, respiratory diseases, influenza and pneumonia.

“This is true every year,” explained Briand. “Every year in the U.S. when we observe the seasonal ups and downs, we have an increase of deaths due to all causes.”
Here’s where things get interesting.

When Briand looked at the 2020 data during that seasonal period, COVID-19-related deaths exceeded deaths from heart diseases. This was highly unusual since heart disease has always prevailed as the leading cause of deaths. However, when taking a closer look at the death numbers, she noted something strange. As Briand compared the number of deaths per cause during that period in 2020 to 2018, she noticed that instead of the expected drastic increase across all causes, there was a significant decrease in deaths due to heart disease. Even more surprising, as seen in the graph below, this sudden decline in deaths is observed for all other causes.

The study found that “This trend is completely contrary to the pattern observed in all previous years.” In fact, “the total decrease in deaths by other causes almost exactly equals the increase in deaths by COVID-19.”

Briand concludes that the COVID-19 death toll in the United States is misleading and that deaths from other diseases are being categorized as COVID-19 deaths.

There have reports of inflated COVID-19 deaths numbers for months. Patients who never tested positive for the disease had COVID-19 as their cause of death on their death certificates. In May, Jared Polis, the Democrat governor of Colorado, disputed official coronavirus death counts, saying even those of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were inflated from including people who tested positive for the coronavirus but died of other causes. In July, a fatal motorcycle accident victim was listed as a COVID-19 death.

On Thursday, Johns Hopkins University explained that they deleted the article on the study because it “was being used to support false and dangerous inaccuracies about the impact of the pandemic.”
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The article “A closer look at U.S. deaths due to COVID-19,” published in the Science & Technology section on Nov. 22, has been deleted.
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Though making clear the need for further research, the article was being used to support false and dangerous inaccuracies about the impact of the pandemic. We regret that this article may have contributed to the spread of misinformation about COVID-19.
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They did not, however, challenge the accuracy of the data or its conclusions. In other words, the article was deleted because it didn’t fit the proper narrative.

 

[TexasLisa]

Thank you Ma'am!

 

[flowerbug]

*shrug*

Johns Hopkins student newspaper deletes, then retracts, article on faculty member’s presentation about COVID-19 deaths

A student newspaper at Johns Hopkins has retracted an article claiming that COVID-19 has had “relatively no effect on deaths in the United States.” The article, “A closer look at U.S. deaths due to…

retractionwatch.com

"As assistant director for the Master’s in Applied Economics program at Hopkins, Briand is neither a medical professional nor a disease researcher. At her talk, she herself stated that more research and data are needed to understand the effects of COVID-19 in the U.S."

science is at times messy.

 

[tortoise]

The CDC's data shows dramatic increase in all-cause mortality, that is not accounted for by season or a bad flu season. Please stop using data from early in the pandemic, its no longer true. We can stop the claim over over-reporting COVID deaths because if that was true, the all cause mortality would not increase. Clearly the increase on total deaths is not from mislabeling cause of deaths!!

 

[TexasLisa]

There has been an UPDATE to the John Hopkins article. Make of it what you will:

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politi...41592a805b6ad5c5ab7cea5689a12ccc&recip=640960

 

[farmerjan]

After reading that article, I went to the side bar that offered other articles, and read the one that said Dr. Fauci reccommends vacination EVEN after having the corona virus...... read that article... there is every reason in there to NOT get vaccinated if you have had covid-19.... or in my case, have been exposed to other corona viruses that in effect cause the body to show an immune type response. We have been vaccinating for a corona virus for years in cattle. I have been around calves that have been diagnosed as having the corona virus... and they often are very successfully TREATED if caught early.
Fauci is in this with Bill Gates and all this push for vaccines that may very well be the coverup for sterilization that has been suggested by gates in different talks....as a way to control the population.
BS to that.

 

[tortoise]

The reason for recommending vaccination even for those who have had COVID is there's suggestion that natural immunity to COVID may not last long enough to achieve herd immunity, and there is some reason to believe vaccine immunity lasts longer.

Notice I said "reason to believe". There's no data yet. There are thoughtful articles explaining how the science could go either way. I dont have a prediction on the svience part.

However, in the situation a situation of limited access to vaccines for a large population, doesnt it make sense to NOT vaccinate those who have recovered in the first round(s) of vaccination? Those people likely have natural immunity for 3 to 6 months - long enough to wait for a later batch of vaccine. JMO!

 

[flowerbug]

while there may be some protection from one vaccine for a virus in the same family of viruses i would not count on that being very great and those who actually know what they are doing in the field will certainly encourage those who are the most risk of being harmed to get protected as well as they can be.

as to the various continue conspiracy theories, hahaha, good laughs. i don't particularly like some of what Bill Gates does with the foundation money, but it is his money (and perhaps WB has put some money in there too by now, i dunno). anyways, nope, i don't buy any of that conspiracy stuff about that as if it were going on it would be detectable by others. as of yet, no credible reports. so, back up your claims with credible reports. i don't see any.

 

[Hinotori]

The microchip conspiracy makes me snicker uncontrollably every time someone mentions it. You'd definitely notice if they were using those giant gauge needles that are used to chip animals.

That and it's just a stupid idea. If they wanted to track people, they'd just use something that almost everyone has with them that has the GPS, internet, and battery to send data.

Mom and Dad broke down out in the middle of nowhere between Hermiston and Heppner. It's the one stretch of road where AT&T doesn't cover. About 20 minutes later they stopped the next person down the road and asked if they could call for a tow if he had signal. He did and let them. When Mom didn't give a location before she hung up, he asked about it. She said his face went really funny after she explained about GPS tracking of calls. Apparently he didn't know about that.