Authored by Benjamin Zeisloft via Campus Reform,
Johns Hopkins University’s student newspaper, the News-Letter, reported on a university presentation stating that COVID-19 “had no effect on the percentage of deaths of older people” and that the virus “has also not increased the total number of deaths” in comparison to historical data. However, the paper later removed the article, stating that it had been used to support “dangerous inaccuracies” on social media.
Assistant Director for the university’s Applied Economics program Genevieve Briand critically analyzed the net effect of COVID-19 on deaths in the United States based on historical data. Using information from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Briand identified the percentages of total deaths per age category both before and after the pandemic began.
“Surprisingly, the deaths of older people stayed the same before and after COVID-19,” said the News-Letter’s article.
“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.”
Though deaths in categories like respiratory illnesses and heart disease seasonally rise and fall together in the United States, Briand noticed a strange trend.
“Instead of the expected drastic increase across all causes, there was a significant decrease in deaths due to heart disease,” in addition to “all other causes.” Additionally, “the total decrease in deaths by other causes almost exactly equals the increase in deaths by COVID-19.”
“All of this points to no evidence that COVID-19 created any excess deaths. Total death numbers are not above normal death numbers. We found no evidence to the contrary,” Briand concluded in her presentation. She told the News-Letter that “a decreased number of heart attacks and all the other death causes doesn’t give us a choice but to point to some misclassification.”
The News-Letter removed the article in late November after staff discovered its coverage of the study was “used to support dangerous inaccuracies that minimize the impact of the pandemic.” The paper linked a PDF of the original article with a watermark stating “Retracted by the News-Letter” to a statement explaining the decision.
The News-Letter explained that it made the decision independently and encouraged readers to take the article “in context with the countless other data published by Hopkins, the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).”
The staff of the News-Letter referred Campus Reform to an op-ed written December 3 by the paper’s editorial board, which said that “the article should not have been deleted in the first place.”
“Instead of temporarily removing it from our website, the News-Letter should have immediately retracted and provided a detailed explanation of the inaccuracies in Briand’s research,” explained the editors.
“We did not intend to silence Briand; instead, we sought to put her claims in conversation with findings from Hopkins, the World Health Organization and the CDC.”
Briand told Campus Reform that the News-Letter’s decision to remove the article was its own, and pointed out that she explained “during the presentation where I found and downloaded the data from, so anyone can easily replicate my analysis.”
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Found this interesting. Farm Workers?
https://www.breitbart.com/health/2020/12/21/cdc-panel-people-over-75-frontline-workers-potentially-illegal-farmworkers-should-get-shot-next/
Think this whole thing is going the political route quite fast to do whatever it is because the virus part is falling away fast. People are getting restless.
Interesting the whole deal of a “new” evolved virus in England with the talk of Brexit again, France cutting them off and all that. Read something the other day that over 90% of England’s traditional fishing grounds were basically taken from them.
JH is OWNED by big pharma. Don’t believe a word they say.
Assume the opposite, for health.
Never let facts get in the way of your narrative and if your narrative changes, remove the previously published facts.
Have you noticed the retort to hoax or masks don’t work is “i lost a friend to Covid”
Leftist are ingrained liers.
then the next comeback should be that the friend they lost probably logged
a vote for Biden in the wee hours of November 4th.
HA!
Just saw this: Hunter Biden is being considered to be named the Trip Czar.
https://www.witn.com/2020/12/22/lyft-to-provide-60-million-rides-to-and-from-vaccinations/
From the news source:
“Lyft says it will provide 60 million rides to and from vaccination sites for low-income, uninsured and at-risk communities as vaccines become available across the country.
The initiative will include transportation to and from vaccination sites, as well as rides for a second dose, if they’re required. Some vaccinations require two doses about a month apart. Other vaccines will take just one.”
Let the fuckups die . die die die. Not very Christian, but die die die.
The fact that Covid is a total hoax doesn’t seem to be filtering down to the proles.
After watching this video anyone considering taking the vaccine would need their head examined. “It’s horrifying”
https://thehighwire.com/videos/the-biggest-experiment-ever-done/
Modern ‘science’ for you. cherry pick data to support a hypothesis and if data discredits your hypothesis delete/discredit it. Anything you want can be true that way
Better yet, get 2,000 ‘scientists’ to sign a letter.
Just got this from a TBP friend…
Yessss!!!!!
“Dangerous inaccuracies”. Must be the new code for doesn’t follow or fit the narrative desired.