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*I* have put forward?? Do you mean what a professor found when she looked at CDC data???????????
What fearmongering are you referring to? The fearmongering is coming from the crooked leftist politicians and media who are NOT reporting the truth about the real COVID mortality rate.
The following is what I posted in my "Lies..." thread:
The lies pertaining to the death toll of this virus have been aplenty! The Epoch Times comes through yet again with a report that everyone should read. I read the following article and watched the related webinar by Genevieve Briand, who analyzed the CDC's official data pertaining to the fatality rate of COVID. What she found is astounding!
Briand found that there has NOT been a significant increase in U.S. deaths from natural causes overall in 2020 compared to other recent years. That's GOOD news, but why are we being told that the death toll for COVID is so high?? We've all seen the graphs showing huge spikes in the number of deaths, right??.
What the data shows is that where deaths attributed to COVID have spiked, deaths attributed to other natural causes, especially heart disease, have shown a corresponding DROP. So, the overall death rate is about the same. This is true across ALL age groups, even the elderly!
This is the article about Dr. Briand from The Epoch Times:
Johns Hopkins University Newspaper Pulls Down Article Questioning COVID-19 Death Tolls
By GQ Pan
November 27, 2020 Updated: November 27, 2020
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Johns Hopkins University’s student newspaper has removed an article, in which an economics professor suggested that the current COVID-19 death toll is misleading, based on her analysis of official data.
The article, which was published Sunday on Johns Hopkins News-Letter, focused on an analysis performed by Genevieve Briand, an assistant program director at the university’s economics department. Briand analyzed the effect of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic on U.S. deaths using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and presented her findings in a webinar.
The CDC data showed that the number of total deaths in the United States between mid-March and mid-September was 1.7 million, of which 200,000 are COVID-19-related. Briand looked at the total deaths in each age group and cause of death, and used that information to evaluate the impact of the pandemic.
“Surprisingly, the deaths of older people stayed the same before and after COVID-19,” the JHN article read. “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.”
When it comes to causes of deaths, Briand found that the total decrease in deaths by other causes almost exactly equals the increase in deaths by COVID-19. She said this is likely because that many deaths have been incorrectly labeled as COVID-19 deaths when they would have been attributed to heart diseases, respiratory diseases, influenza, and pneumonia.
“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 said, reported the JHN.
Briand concluded that she has found “no evidence that COVID-19 created any excess deaths,” meaning that the number of deaths this year isn’t particularly higher than that of a normal year.
“If [the COVID-19 death toll] was not misleading at all, what we should have observed is an increased number of heart attacks and increased COVID-19 numbers. But a decreased number of heart attacks and all the other death causes doesn’t give us a choice but to point to some misclassification,” Briand said.
The JHN article was pulled down on Thursday without explanation. The student newspaper on Friday wrote on Twitter that the article was “being used to support false and dangerous inaccuracies” about the impact of the pandemic, and that they “regret that this article may have contributed to the spread of misinformation about COVID-19.”
Briand’s webinar, in which she explained her findings in detail with graphs, is still available on Johns Hopkins University’s YouTube channel by the time of this publication.
Source: Johns Hopkins University Newspaper Pulls Down Article Questioning COVID-19 Death Tolls
There, now this info won't be buried in my thread, but it will be available to anyone who wants it.
