Aug 14, 2026
https://sharylattkisson.substack.com/p/how-a-flawed-covid-study-triedand
"As the revelations about the Amish made international headlines, here appeared to be a propaganda-driven effort to make it seem as if the Amish actually suffered far worse than everyone else for having failed to follow CDC’s advice.
A study was published entitled: “Closed but Not Protected: Excess Deaths Among the Amish and Mennonites During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” It appeared in the Journal of Religion and Health on June 11, 2021.
But I noticed serious flaws with the study and decided to challenge it. Among the problems I saw:
For their study population, the researchers grouped together a sample of Mennonite and Amish— even though Mennonites typically followed CDC guidelines while the Amish did not.
They excluded the largest Amish population in the US in Lancaster, the one that was actually the subject of the news reports.
And their study headline was at odds with what their own data showed: even with their skewed sample, the Amish fared no worse than the rest of the US for not having shut down."