{"id":43051,"date":"2020-12-22T13:30:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T17:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=43051"},"modified":"2020-12-22T13:34:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T17:34:50","slug":"43051","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=43051","title":{"rendered":"Why did Johns Hopkins suddenly remove the university study examining the Covid death rate? (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Johns Hopkins newspaper removes study examining COVID death rate<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Johns Hopkins University\u2019s student newspaper staff retracted an article featuring a university study claiming that COVID-19 did not significantly increase the U.S. death rate.<\/em><\/p>\n

The newspaper’s editor stated that it was brought to their attention that the article was being used to spread \u201cdangerous inaccuracies\u201d online.<\/h3>\n

Campus Reform<\/p>\n

Johns Hopkins University\u2019s student newspaper, the\u00a0News-Letter<\/em>, reported on a university\u00a0presentation<\/a>\u00a0stating that COVID-19 \u201chad no effect on the percentage of deaths of older people\u201d and that the virus \u201chas also not increased the total number of deaths\u201d in comparison to historical data. However, the paper later removed the article, stating that it had been used to support \u201cdangerous inaccuracies\u201d on social media.<\/p>\n

Assistant Director for the university\u2019s Applied Economics program\u00a0Genevieve Briand<\/a>\u00a0critically 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cSurprisingly, the deaths of older people stayed the same before and after COVID-19,\u201d said the\u00a0News-Letter<\/em>\u2019s article. \u201cSince 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though deaths in categories like respiratory illnesses and heart disease seasonally rise and fall together in the United States, Briand noticed a strange trend.<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead of the expected drastic increase across all causes, there was a significant decrease in deaths due to heart disease,\u201d in addition to \u201call other causes.\u201d Additionally, \u201cthe total decrease in deaths by other causes almost exactly equals the increase in deaths by COVID-19.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAll 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,\u201d Briand concluded in her presentation. She told the\u00a0News-Letter<\/em>\u00a0that \u201ca decreased number of heart attacks and all the other death causes doesn\u2019t give us a choice but to point to some misclassification.\u201d<\/p>\n

The\u00a0News-Letter\u00a0<\/em>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.\u201d The paper linked a PDF of the original article with a watermark stating \u201cRetracted by the News-Letter\u201d to a statement\u00a0explaining<\/a>\u00a0the decision.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0News-Letter<\/em>\u00a0explained that it made the decision independently and encouraged readers to take the article \u201cin context with the countless other data published by Hopkins, the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).\u201d<\/p>\n

The staff of the\u00a0News-Letter<\/em>\u00a0referred\u00a0Campus Reform<\/em>\u00a0to an\u00a0op-ed\u00a0<\/a>written December 3 by the paper\u2019s editorial board, which said that \u201cthe article should not have been deleted in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead of temporarily removing it from our website, the\u00a0News-Letter<\/em>\u00a0should have immediately retracted and provided a detailed explanation of the inaccuracies in Briand\u2019s research,\u201d explained the editors. \u201cWe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Briand told\u00a0Campus Reform<\/em>\u00a0that the\u00a0News-Letter<\/em>\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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