As usual, as @Doug64 trying vainly to justify Trump's murderous lack of action on Covid, has posted an article that is dangerous and has been repudiated. Are any of us surprised?
Here is what Johns Hopkins said about this person's "study".
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.
Briand was quoted in the article as saying, “All of this points to no evidence that COVID-19 created any excess deaths. Total death numbers are not above normal death numbers.” This claim is incorrect and does not take into account the spike in raw death count from all causes compared to previous years. According to the CDC, there have been almost 300,000 excess deaths due to COVID-19. Additionally, Briand presented data of total U.S. deaths in comparison to COVID-19-related deaths as a proportion percentage, which trivializes the repercussions of the pandemic. This evidence does not disprove the severity of COVID-19; an increase in excess deaths is not represented in these proportionalities because they are offered as percentages, not raw numbers.
Briand also claimed in her analysis that deaths due to heart diseases, respiratory diseases, influenza and pneumonia may be incorrectly categorized as COVID-19-related deaths. However, COVID-19 disproportionately affects those with preexisting conditions, so those with those underlying conditions are statistically more likely to be severely affected and die from the virus.
Because of these inaccuracies and our failure to provide additional information about the effects of COVID-19, The News-Letter decided to retract this article. It is our duty as a publication to combat the spread of misinformation and to enhance our fact-checking process. We apologize to our readers.
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No doubt Doug saw this and just accidentally forgot to include it in his post.
As to this comment by Doug:
An interesting study that the elites don’t want you to see, even though they aren’t contesting that actual data it produced:
This is incorrect on two points. First, if by elites he means Johns Hopkins University he would be wrong. The article is still posted in their publication. It has been posted as a PDF and is behind no kind of wall.
Secondly, as you can clearly see in their comments (above) they are most certainly contesting her data.
This is why it is dangerous to believe in someone whose overwhelming confirmation bias drives them to google until they find what they are looking for.
Then there is the smell test which serves pretty well. We have, according to Doug64, a vast conspiracy consisting of patients faking symptoms in hospitals while they die of some hidden cause and the sum of all doctors and nurses either being fooled or willingly participating in a hoax of monumental proportions. They are doing this all over the world because.....? Well. Maybe in his next bullshit post Doug can explain that piece to us.