Genevieve Briand, Assistant Program Director at Jon Hopkins, has completed a paper looking at death rates due to COVID-19. Finds that the # of deaths observed over 2020 is completely normal given the USA's population growth.

She also shows how wonky and misleading the excess death estimates conducted by the CDC were, which used a mathematical model which had as its central limitation that it would *not* take into account population growth or ageing. Kind of an obviously dumb thing to (which I pointed

out at the time by the way) https://twitter.com/leilamechoui/status/1333652643206615046

This is all so dumb and obvious now. But as Lenin loved to say, none are so blind who refuse to see.

Full paper available here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349925425_COVID-19_Deaths_A_Look_at_US_Data_FEB_2021_WORKING_PAPER_Genevieve_Briand