Earlier this week, Johns Hopkins University Newsletter ran a study from Genevieve Briand, assistant program director of the Applied Economics master's degree program at Hopkins, that looked at the effect of the COVID-19 on U.S. deaths according to data from the CDC. What the study concluded and the article said was something quite profound.
The study concluded that the virus had "Relatively no effect on deaths in the United States."
So what Briand was saying was that the number of deaths remained relatively the same for the elderly age group.
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.
Interestingly, as depicted in the table below, the total decrease in deaths by other causes almost exactly equals the increase in deaths by COVID-19.
The CDC classified all deaths that are related to COVID-19 simply as COVID-19 deaths.
JHU Newsletter said that there had been excess deaths according to the CDC and disputed the conclusion of Briand.
Saturday, November 28, 2020
Johns Hopkins University Newsletter Ran Study Saying COVID 'Relatively No Effect on Deaths' in U.S., Then Deleted It After Publication
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