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Study from Johns Hopkins Student that claims the number of deaths by COVID-19 is 'not alarming' gets CENSORED, Fact-Checked: A study looking at the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) published data, and an interview with Johns Hopkins University’s assistant program director of Applied Economics who reviewed the data, is being censored by the University from which it originated. The study from JHU student Yanni Gu indicated there is “…no evidence that COVID-19 created any excess deaths…,” which prompted the University to retract the study from its newsletter. Not the Bee, a new site from the creators of The Babylon Bee, pointed this out in an article and was subsequently fact-checked by two of Facebook's fact-checkers. "The student paper's retracted article contained inaccuracies that should have been caught during the editing process -- errors that led to online sharing of misinformation," said Facebook fact-checker Lead Stories. The fact-check essentially says that because JHU retracted the study it is false. It also disputes the findings by saying, "There is no evidence that official COVID-19 death tallies have hidden some other cause of unexpected deaths in 2020."  

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