Context: The excess deaths are real and unmistakable. To the extent that the quoted claims are based on deaths among the elderly being about in their normal proportion, this is unsurprising—the virus kills all ages, but skews old, just like all deaths do.
https://twitter.com/lymanstoneky/status/1331984271955939328
The student article has been removed, and so of course now there are conspiracy theories about *that*
https://twitter.com/JHUNewsLetter/status/1332100155986882562
To reiterate, there are over 300,000 excess deaths. Not clear to me whether it was written up sloppily, or the econ masters candidate made an error, but the proposition that no additional people have died this year is flatly incorrect. cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr…
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