On Thursday, November 26th, a paper was published by Dr. Genevieve Briand, an Assistant Director for MS in Applied Economics program at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. The article was a study of COVID death statistics since February, and purported to show that in spite of what has been portrayed in the media, 1) there has been no surge of deaths in the US above the normal rates, and that 2) many deaths that have been categorized as COVID deaths have been miscategorized, based on the decrease to well below normal for other causes of death, such as heart disease, cancer stroke, etc.