Re:Anders Tegnell defends Sweden's virus approach
by martin_bech on Thursday June 04, 2020 @05:25AM
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The Swedes are actually poor at counting deaths, as they lag in their reporting, and often report 0 deaths in the weekend and hollidays. According to NYT Sweden has an excess of deaths totally of about 30%, about the same as France, but climbing. And no its not difficult to compare to say Denmark or Norway.
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Re:Anders Tegnell defends Sweden's virus approach
by DanBC on Thursday June 04, 2020 @05:30AM
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> The Swedes are actually poor at counting deaths, as they lag in their reporting, and often report 0 deaths in the weekend and hollidays.
That doesn't make them poor at counting death, so long as those deaths do eventually get counted. Everyone knows there are lags in reporting and counting, and everyone should take those lags into account when using the data.
Compare that to Spain, which has recently changed their count method and ended up with a confusing and misleading set of data. https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1268450736398098433?...
Re:Anders Tegnell defends Sweden's virus approach
by oxymoron on Thursday June 04, 2020 @05:33AM
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It’s because it takes time to coordinate the collection of deaths from nursing hones and so forth. A large number of countries are not even collecting these statistics, so I think it’s unfair to say that Sweden is poor at it. According to the latest report, 79% of excess deaths were accounted for in official statistics.
https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/globalassets/statistik-u...