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Re:Anders Tegnell defends Sweden's virus approach by Entalpi on Thursday June 04, 2020 @05:29AM (#23414462)
To be honest every single death in Sweden is probably counted so the stats are rocksolid. Other countries might have a lower quality of stats (unaccounted death, paperless/undocumented people, missdiagnosed, etc)..
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Re:Anders Tegnell defends Sweden's virus approach by martin_bech on Thursday June 04, 2020 @06:26AM (#23414796)
They may be counted eventually, but as of writing, the numbers are lagging, with delays from various areas in Sweden.

There is no evidence that the quality of data from Sweden, should be better then anywhere else. Sweden actually has a testing problem, so by design, missdiagnosed could be higher in Sweden. There are very very vey few undocumented people in Scandinavia.

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Re:Anders Tegnell defends Sweden's virus approach by andybak on Thursday June 04, 2020 @06:04AM (#23414668)
I keep seeing people saying things along the lines of "but the official statistics massively (under/over) estimate the true count" depending on which particular point they want to make.
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