This is pretty astounding. What is even more astounding is that the original study authors retracted the paper, not because it was inaccurate, but because it completely discredits the pandemic narrative that has been used to inflict so much suffering and destruction.
From the paper:
“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…
“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 original paper has thankfully been saved, and can be read here.