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Economist Genevieve Briand discovered that, while the number of deaths rose drastically for COVID-19, all other causes declined by about the same number. Briand believes that deaths due to heart diseases, respiratory diseases, influenza and pneumonia have been recategorized as deaths from COVID-19.