Interesting, Johns Hopkins said they deleted the study because it "was being used to support false and dangerous inaccuracies about the impact of the pandemic", and not because it was incorrect.
Regardless of if it's correct, I think this has become such a political issue in the US that the American left would be very hard pressed to publicly accept this study's claims.
I really hope that statisticians are able to look past their own personal convictions and look at possible ways our assumptions may have been incorrect. (Personally speaking, I wear a mask, I don't think the coronavirus is a giant conspiracy by the lizard people etc. but I do recognize that the modern scientific community has a tendency to think one way, and then remain cemented in that way for a while.)
Regardless of if it's correct, I think this has become such a political issue in the US that the American left would be very hard pressed to publicly accept this study's claims.
I really hope that statisticians are able to look past their own personal convictions and look at possible ways our assumptions may have been incorrect. (Personally speaking, I wear a mask, I don't think the coronavirus is a giant conspiracy by the lizard people etc. but I do recognize that the modern scientific community has a tendency to think one way, and then remain cemented in that way for a while.)