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Article One: >After retrieving data on the CDC website, Briand compiled a graph representing percentages of total deaths per age category from early February t

• espadrine 6y ago
  > > This claim is incorrect and does not take into account the spike in raw death count from all causes compared to previous years. > Am I the only person confused with the language here? What is the difference between "Total deaths per age category" and "total raw death count"? The article has multiple items of incorrect analysis. One is that having constant percentages of deaths per age category, does not show that the death count is itself constant. A separate one is that the claim that “total death numbers are not above normal death numbers” is factually incorrect. While reading the link, and before reading the retractation, I made myself these exact remarks. One thing I saw in the article, which the retractation implies, but does not emphasize, is that this assertion: > Briand also noted that 50,000 to 70,000 deaths are seen both before and after COVID-19, indicating that this number of deaths was normal long before COVID-19 … is a non-sequitur. The fact that a large number of deaths has been reached in the past, does not imply that it being reached with COVID-19 is normal.