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I can only assume your Norwegian is a lot better than mine. But I had read from a reliable source that excluding those over 70 the excess death rate (all cause
by wizofaus 4y ago
I can only assume your Norwegian is a lot better than mine. But I had read from a reliable source that excluding those over 70 the excess death rate (all causes) in Sweden wasn't notably higher than other Nordic countries.
- evgen 4y agoSo if you exclude the largest category of deaths and cherry-pick from the remaining data you think a point is being made? Sweden and Norway has similar covid death rates for children aged 6-8, therefore the public health policy differences between the two countries had no effect? Do you know what actually was the same among the various Scandinavian countries? The economic impact of covid. Swedish policy failures that ended up killing more people did not provide the expected economic benefit. Sweden fucked up and their population paid the price.
- wizofaus 4y agoI think you need to go back and re-read what I wrote. I quite clearly objected to omitting deaths of those over 70.
- kwhitefoot 4y agoI can't say anything about the excess death rate. My source is the VG webpage I included. It seems unlikely that there are enough people over 70 to make a 3 to 1 difference between the two countries. Perhaps someone can provide a reference to correct me.
- wizofaus 4y agoIt's likely to be somewhere in the order of 20% (that's the figure for over 65s for Europe as a whole). Excess deaths is definitely a better measure than those attributed to Covid - e.g. it was reported in Australia deaths were recorded as due to covid in any case that a hospital patient tested +ve even if the immediate cause of death was unrelated - i.e. they almost certainly would have died anyway regardless of Covid.
- kwhitefoot 4y agoOur excess death rate in Norway was negative.
- hmlongco 4y agoYeah, let's exclude the numbers for those over 70. Not like they're actually people or anything...