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Con­ven­tion­al wis­dom is that COVID-19 has caused thou­sands of deaths in the Unit­ed States and near­ly 1.5 mil­lion world­wide. This per­cep­tion has been direct­ly chal­lenged by a study pub­lished by Johns Hop­kins Uni­ver­si­ty on Novem­ber 22.

Genevieve Briand, assis­tant pro­gram direc­tor of the Applied Eco­nom­ics master’s degree pro­gram at Johns Hop­kins Uni­ver­si­ty, crit­i­cal­ly ana­lyzed the impact that COVID-19 had on U.S. deaths. Accord­ing to Briand, the impact of COVID-19 on deaths in the Unit­ed States can be ful­ly under­stood by com­par­ing it to the num­ber of total deaths in the country.