Johns Hopkins University: “Surprisingly, the deaths of older people stayed the same before and after COVID-19... In fact, the percentages of deaths among all age groups remain relatively the same.”

wordpress ^ | November 26, 2020 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

[grundle]

Johns Hopkins University: “Surprisingly, the deaths of older people stayed the same before and after COVID-19. 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.”

Johns Hopkins University has just reported the following:

“Surprisingly, the deaths of older people stayed the same before and after COVID-19. 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.”

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20201122214034/https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2020/11/a-closer-look-at-u-s-deaths-due-to-covid-19

Although the people who conducted this study find the results “surprising,” I myself do not.

Anyway, this is proof that the panic and hysteria over COVID-19, as well as the lockdowns, closures, cancellations, restrictions, and other authoritarian actions on the part of political leaders, were all completely unjustified.

Which is exactly what I have been saying all along.

[Drew68]

Here's the thread posted earlier.

Johns Hopkins deleted their article.

A closer look at U.S. deaths due to COVID-19 ("Experts" shocked there has been no increase in death rate)

[Jonty30]

Why am I not surprised?

[gov_bean_ counter]

Lots of false positives. Tests are now picking dead COVID particles.

[Drew68]

JH Twitter post:

The article “A closer look at U.S. deaths due to COVID-19,” published in the Science & Technology section on Nov. 22, has been deleted.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Covid was ALWAYS meant to be a political weapon.

[Persevero]

Deleted huh? Interesting. Did they say why?

One would assume it got vetted before “publication.”

[calenel]

A quarter of a million deaths piled onto the 4.25 million deaths we normally have in a year, weighted toward the older end of the age distribution just like all the rest of the deaths are, is not going to change the distribution. That’s abuse of statistics. It’s like saying that there are no excess fatalities from car crashes when car crashes doubled because the ratio of deaths between seat-belted and un-seat-belted remained the same.

The origin of the claim was the student paper at JHU, not JHU itself. Not a source to be taken at face value. Remember that Obama was once the President of the Harvard Law Review. DO you think he merits Harvard’s reputation in all his opinions?

[KSCITYBOY]

btt

[blueunicorn6]

There must be bodies everywhere.

[Hojczyk]

I think they have no clue...Asain flue deaths are way down..

[daniel1212]

From https://web.archive.org/web/20201122214034/https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2020/11/a-closer-look-at-u-s-deaths-due-to-covid-19:

After retrieving data on the CDC website, Briand compiled a graph representing percentages of total deaths per age category from early February to early September, which includes the period from before COVID-19 was detected in the U.S. to after infection rates soared. 

Surprisingly, the deaths of older people stayed the same before and after COVID-19. 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. 

“The reason we have a higher number of reported COVID-19 deaths among older individuals than younger individuals is simply because every day in the U.S. older individuals die in higher numbers than younger individuals,” Briand said.

Briand also noted that 50,000 to 70,000 deaths are seen both before and after COVID-19, indicating that this number of deaths was normal long before COVID-19 emerged. Therefore, according to Briand, not only has COVID-19 had no effect on the percentage of deaths of older people, but it has also not increased the total number of deaths. 

These data analyses suggest that in contrast to most people’s assumptions, the number of deaths by COVID-19 is not alarming. In fact, it has relatively no effect on deaths in the United States.

This comes as a shock to many people. How is it that the data lie so far from our perception? 

To answer that question, Briand shifted her focus to the deaths per causes ranging from 2014 to 2020. There is a sudden increase in deaths in 2020 due to COVID-19. This is no surprise because COVID-19 emerged in the U.S. in early 2020, and thus COVID-19-related deaths increased drastically afterward.

Analysis of deaths per cause in 2018 revealed that the pattern of seasonal increase in the total number of deaths is a result of the rise in deaths by all causes, with the top three being heart disease, respiratory diseases, influenza and pneumonia.

“This is true every year. Every year in the U.S. when we observe the seasonal ups and downs, we have an increase of deaths due to all causes,” Briand pointed out.

When Briand looked at the 2020 data during that seasonal period, COVID-19-related deaths exceeded deaths from heart diseases. This was highly unusual since heart disease has always prevailed as the leading cause of deaths. However, when taking a closer look at the death numbers, she noted something strange. 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. Even more surprising, as seen in the graph below, this sudden decline in deaths is observed for all other causes. 

COURTESY OF GENEVIEVE BRIAND

[Drew68]

Deleted huh? Interesting. Did they say why?

Yeah, people started reading it.

[lepton]

Surprising that they have current enough data to even do this study. Usually that takes half a year for everything to filter in.

[doc maverick]

Good work!
So you see, inflated cases mean nothing. This is what blue state governors are basing their gestapo crackdowns on-inflated numbers.
And the death rate has not changed. In fact, the death rate does nothing not delineate whether or not these “covid deaths” were actually covid only deaths or death rates complicated by pre-existing conditions which may have been the primary cause of death.

[daniel1212]

The origin of the claim was the student paper at JHU, not JHU itself.

Do you mean "Genevieve Briand, assistant program director of the Applied Economics master’s degree program at Hopkins?"

[ScholarWarrior]

It was against the will of Landru.

[radu]

They’ve been picking up dead COVID particles all along. PCR tests detect RNA but don’t distinguish between RNA from living virus or dead virus.

[lepton]

Surprising that they have current enough data to even do this study. Usually that takes half a year for everything to filter in.

...and much of a year to review and get preliminary reliable cause of death info

[Senator_Blutarski]

bfl