Retracted Johns Hopkins Article Proves COVID-19 Death Statistics From the CDC are Manipulated

In a Johns Hopkins News-Letter dated November 22, 2020, “Genevieve Briand, assistant program director of the Applied Economics master’s degree program at Hopkins, critically analyzed the effect of COVID-19 on U.S. deaths using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).”

She found that there was zero increase in deaths across the United States between 2018 and 2020. She determined that “the percentages of deaths among all age groups remain relatively the same.” She thus concluded that COVID-19 “has relatively no effect on deaths in the United States.”

Briand was puzzled because the CDC had reported an increase in deaths due to solely to COVID-19. Thus, there should have been an increase in total deaths reported to the CDC by approximately 267,000. But there was no such increase.

What could be the explanation? When Briand examined the death statistics from the CDC, she made the disturbing discovery that deaths from heart disease, respiratory disease, influenza, and pneumonia dropped during the COVID-19 outbreak. She saw in the statistics that deaths were being shifted from those other categories to COVID-19. “Briand believes that deaths due to heart diseases, respiratory diseases, influenza and pneumonia may instead be recategorized as being due to COVID-19.” Yanni Gu, A closer look at U.S. deaths due to COVID-19, Johns Hopkins News-Letter, November 22, 2020, https://web.archive.org/web/20201126223119/https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2020/11/a-closer-look-at-u-s-deaths-due-to-covid-19.

Well, the powers that be could not allow Briand’s article to reveal that truth. And so the article was retracted. The reason given was that Johns Hopkins was concerned that the article “has been used to support dangerous inaccuracies that minimize the impact of the pandemic.” 

But in the retraction notice, Johns Hopkins actually acknowledged the principal finding made by Briand, that the number of deaths due to heart diseases, respiratory diseases, influenza and pneumonia had been shifted to the COVID-19 list of deaths. The retraction states that “Briand also claimed in her analysis that deaths due to heart diseases, respiratory diseases, influenza and pneumonia may be incorrectly categorized as COVID-19-related deaths. However, COVID-19 disproportionately affects those with preexisting conditions, so those with those underlying conditions are statistically more likely to be severely affected and die from the virus.”

Notice that the retraction does not dispute Briand’s finding, but rather tries to explain it as being caused by the fact that “those with those underlying conditions are statistically more likely to be severely affected and die from the virus.” What the retraction did not say is that the COVID-19 death statistics from the CDC list those who die “with” COVID-19 and not necessarily those who die “from” COVID-19.

Briand based her conclusions on the official CDC reports. The retraction pulled a switch and argued against Briand by citing to a private website, Our Wolrd in Data, that does not use the statistical methodology of the CDC.

Indeed, it appears that Our World in Data simply added the CDC announced COVID-19 deaths to all other deaths reported by the CDC. Notably, there is no breakdown of deaths by cause on that page of Our World in Data. There is just the raw total deaths from all causes. It seems that Our World in Data Simply added the reported COVID-19 deaths to that statistic, which had the effect of double-counting the COIVD-19 deaths.

The Johns Hopkins retraction statement cites to the alternative website to make the claim that there was in fact a spike in deaths due to COVID-19. When the retraction statement cites back again to the CDC statistics, it does so to make the claim that “[a]ccording to the CDC, there have been almost 300,000 excess deaths due to COVID-19.” It then provides a link to the CDC website that simply announces the COVID-19 deaths. Nowhere on the CDC page is the COVID-19 death statistic reported as “excess deaths due to COVID-19” as claimed by the Johns Hopkins retraction statement. Indeed, the Johns Hopkins retraction statement is a false statement. The CDC web page cited by the Johns Hopkins retraction statement simply reports “COVID-19 Cases and Deaths.”

Indeed, the COVID-19 death statistic cited by the Johns Hopkins retraction statement is the very statistic that Briand analyzed when determining that those numbers were borrowed from people dying of comorbidities of heart disease, respiratory disease, influenza, and pneumonia. Indeed, the CDC acknowledges that 94% of all COVID-19 deaths are of people with at least 2.5 comorbidities.

The CDC reveals that “[h]igh blood pressure [i.e., hypertension] was a primary or contributing cause of death in 2017 for more than 472,000 people in the United States.” Indeed, hypertension and stroke are the two leading causes of death in the U.S. Furthermore, according to the CDC, diabetes is the seventh-ranked cause of death in the United States. In 2017, 83,564 people in the U.S. died of diabetes. Yet, let a diabetic or someone with high blood pressure come down with COVID-19 and presto-chango they are said to have died of COVID-19 with their hypertension and diabetes being relegated to a comorbidity.

The Johns Hopkins retraction statement admits that “those with those underlying conditions are statistically more likely to be severely affected and die from the virus.” There is agreement between Briand and the retraction that people who are reported as dying of COVID-19 by the CDC are actually people who died “with” COVID-19 and not necessarily dying “from” COVID-19. Indeed, the CDC cleverly announces their COVID-19 death statistics without ever using the word “deaths from COVID-19.” They intend to give the impression that people died “from” COVID-19 but the CDC never actually says that the persons listed died “from” COVID-19. The CDC simply announces the statistics as “COVID-19 Cases and Deaths.” Thus the CDC is simply reporting those who are presumed to have COVID-19 or test positive for COVID-19 as a “case.” And those who die “with” COVID-19 as a COVID-19 death even though they likely did not die “from” COVID-19.

The Johns Hopkins retraction is attempting to give the false impression that the COVID-19 deaths reported by the CDC are of people who died “from” COVID-19. That is certainly what the CDC is implying, but it is not what the CDC is reporting. The CDC is simply reporting deaths of people who allegedly died “with” COVID-19. The CDC acknowledges that of those who died “with” COIVD-19, approximately 94% of them died with an average of 2.5 comorbidities.

Briand’s research was scrutinized and confirmed as true by Colleen Huber and Boris Borovoy.


The chart below, prepared by Briand, shows how the CDC has scammed the public to portray a COVID-19 pandemic where there is no actual pandemic. The CDC has shifted the deaths from all other causes into the COVID-19 category.

Covid-19 Deaths: A Look at U.S. Data

The CDC admits that “[f]or the majority of deaths where COVID-19 is reported on the death certificate (approximately 95%), COVID-19 is selected as the underlying cause of death.”

Please understand the significance of that statement by the CDC. The CDC is revealing that that 95% of all COIVID-19 deaths reported on a death certificate, regardless of the comorbidity, the death certificate reports COVID-19 as the underlying cause of death. That simply does not pass the smell test. It is especially suspicious when one considered that among all reported deaths involving COVID-19, 94% of those cases involve 2.5 comorbidities. Let us look at some of just some of the comorbidities listed by the CDC.

Cardiac Arrest
Diabetes
Alzheimer Disease
Renal Failure
Injury (Intentional, Unintentional, Poisoning and Other Adverse Events)
Malignant Neoplasms (a.k.a. Cancerous Tumors)

The country health departments throughout the U.S. are following the instructions from the CDC to report on the death certificate someone who died “with” COVID-19 as having died “from” COVID-19. The county health departments are reporting COVID-19 as an underlying cause of death and the CDC reports that as a COVID-19 death, even though the person may actually have died of a heart attack or terminal cancer. That death is then reported by the CDC in their statistics as someone who died “of” COVID-19, even though they may only have died “with” COVID-19 and actually died “of” something else.

This necessarily means that there will be an underreporting of actual deaths from the comorbidities. The CDC is taking deaths that actually occur from other causes and falsely swapping them into the COVID-19 death column. That is what was found by Genevieve Briand in her Johns Hopkins report. What a scam!


The COVID-19 Comorbidity Scam of the CDC

8 thoughts on “Retracted Johns Hopkins Article Proves COVID-19 Death Statistics From the CDC are Manipulated

  1. Amen, many doctors have been saying the same thing for months. They are double counting deaths from other causes as Covid deaths. Families that had someone die from drowning, car accidents, etc were appalled that the death certificate said they were Covid deaths. Of course the mainstream media did not report what those families found or the rebel doctors. Per Koch’s Postulates there are zero Covid deaths, no one has isolated any C virus. Therefore, there can be no vaccine for it. The theory behind vaccines is insane and suicidal.

    • Amen! Covid19 has never been Isolated or verified and is unavailable on record (Page 39 of the CDC website). Therefore, what they are saying is Covid19 is really our own DNA sequence (Chromosome8). Viruses are just Solvents/Soaps created in our own bodies to detoxify toxins in cells and is NOT a living thing, therefore not contagious.

      They have pulled the wool over the people’s eyes once again, and if we don’t wake up, they will impose the most oppressive Medical Tyranny the world will has ever seen.

  2. It seems great effort is now in play to hide the true intent of Covid-19, which is a man-made excuse to introduce a DNA altering vaccine thereby transforming people so they can be easily controlled through technology and be directly integrated into the beast system.

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