It is important to note that the “News Letter” from Johns Hopkins is a student publication.
I am not challenging the facts of what was published.
But, it is important to disclose that the publication was not an official scientific journal or something similar.
You are correct. I suspect JHU won’t be long associated with them hereafter.
You don’t have to run around looking for articles badly computed to support a counter conspiracy.
Just go download the data yourself. Verify the graphs are correctly graphed. Done. Deaths this year from all causes are far above the typical year. Particularly for old folks. It’s right there on the excess deaths page. Contorting computations to get % of this and % of that is just a PhD who lost her job in Idaho, knows she’ll never get tenure at Hopkins, but hopes to latch on and pay her bills at a Wash/Balt right wing think tank.
So? I trust an data driven student more than politicized hacks working on the Deep State/DNC’s dime. Why the Ad Hominem?
I think this post misses the Johns Hopkins article’s point. The Johns Hopkins article is not written very clearly but here’s the argument it is making as I understand it: we know the age distribution of reported Covid deaths (they skew heavily towards the elderly). We also know the age distribution of total reported deaths. The author is arguing that if Covid caused the excess deaths, then the excess deaths should show the same age distribution as the reported Covid deaths. But they do not match up at all. According to the author, there is no change from prior years in the age distribution of total deaths. Which means that the excess deaths are caused by something other than the Covid infection itself. I think the point is that our reaction to Covid (causing missed diagnosis and undertreatment of other diseases) is the real culprit.
That’s why I didn’t post this with the “science” keyword. It is interesting that you ignore the fact that a thesis or dissertation is a document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional qualification presenting the author’s (a student) research and findings. Take the information provided any way you wish.
Agreed. We should be open and honest, and complete. Otherwise we’re as conniving disingenuous as the commie opponents.