The data analysis report from the Johns Hopkins newsletter showed that, according to CDC data, the CV did not change the death rates for the elderly nor for the population at large. The data analyst was specifically analyzing deaths by age group, and the data seemed to show that the increase in covid-related mortality is paired with a decrease in all the primary death causes, suggesting that many deaths that would have been classified as due to heart disease or respiratory conditions, are being classified as covid deaths.

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.

This trend is completely contrary to the pattern observed in all previous years. 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. This suggests, according to Briand, that the COVID-19 death toll is misleading. Briand believes that deaths due to heart diseases, respiratory diseases, influenza and pneumonia may instead be recategorized as being due to COVID-19.

The CDC classified all deaths that are related to COVID-19 simply as COVID-19 deaths. Even patients dying from other underlying diseases but are infected with COVID-19 count as COVID-19 deaths. This is likely the main explanation as to why COVID-19 deaths drastically increased while deaths by all other diseases experienced a significant decrease.

“All 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,” Briand concluded.

“If [the COVID-19 death toll] was not misleading at all, what we should have observed is an increased number of heart attacks and increased COVID-19 numbers. But a decreased number of heart attacks and all the other death causes doesn’t give us a choice but to point to some misclassification,” Briand replied.

The problem is that this article was scrubbed once it began to gain traction, and the data analyst was forced to publicly apologize for her study. Here is the archived view. If you are speaking with people who know a bit about the corruption rampant in the medical and scientific fields, and in universities, hospitals, grants, corporate sponsorships, etc., they will see that scrubbing its existence off the internet rather than allowing colleagues to rebut her conclusions, points to a cover up rather than the scientific process, exchange of ideas, and peer review.

But those who simply trust the experts and think that "settled science" is a thing will point to the author being coerced into disavowing the study as evidence that something was wrong with the analysis. If you can get them to read the article, they'll see how straightforward the analysis is, but getting them to read it is a challenge.

The same with all the doctors and nurses that have been whistleblowers on all the things discussed so well in the above comments. The ones who have come out publicly have had their reputations dragged through the mud, so those who trust the likes of MSNBC can disregard them without even looking at their claims.

The statistics are at the cdc also in Italy which is the one they really used to scare people. Death rate of elderly is unchanged. Whatever their equivalent of cdc will have stats.