“She’s a PhD who teaches microeconomic theory, statistics, and econometrics.”
Probably not for long. Publishing this, regardless of whether it is or is not true, is a major academic error that even tenure will probably not protect. Actually, she’s probably in more trouble if she is correct.
Her numbers should be easy to verify unless the CDC pulls the information down quickly.
I don’t know. There are still some honest people in academia - and it’s not as if Briand’s paper was without reservations.
(On this thread, I think some people here initially made the mistake of assuming that the author of this article from a University newsletter, was the same person as the Professor who actually wrote the paper which the article discusses.)