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Your France vs Sweden statistic disturbed me so I looked into it and Sweden seems to have by far the highest Covid deaths in the Nordic countries. https://www.
by JohnJamesRambo 5y ago
Your France vs Sweden statistic disturbed me so I looked into it and Sweden seems to have by far the highest Covid deaths in the Nordic countries.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1113834/cumulative-coronavirus-deaths-in-the-nordics/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1113834/cumulative-coron...
I’d like a per capita chart but I can’t find one. Norway has about half the population of Sweden and has 18x less Covid deaths though. Maybe France and Sweden are too different to compare directly?
https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-020-09615-3 https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s...
Norway and Sweden seem a much better comparison and they had pretty much opposite responses to Covid.
“Norway closed educational institutions, and banned sports and cultural activities; Sweden kept most institutions and training facilities open.”
To me this implies Covid lockdowns etc may have caused a ~ten-fold reduction in per capita death rate.
- tomohawk 5y ago<s>Yah, because you must only compare Sweden to "other nordic countries" </s>
- perardi 5y agoA per capita chart? Our World In Data is great for that. https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths?country=USA~GBR~CAN~DEU~FRA~SWE~KOR~TWN#cumulative-confirmed-deaths-per-million-people https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths?country=USA~GBR~CAN~...
- 1cvmask 5y agoThe way countries measure covid deaths is also relevant. Unless it has changed you were counted as a covid death in Sweden if you died in a car accident and happened to have covid. Norway would count you as a car accident death in their statistics.
- 8note 5y agoIt's the same thing with a gunshot, you have been shot in the heart, but you died due to lack of oxygen in your brain, and thus you did not die of a gunshot wound