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As of Sunday, the latest death rate in Sweden (deaths per 100,000 people) was reported to be 56.40. The figure is lower than that reported in the U.K. (69.60), Spain (60.88) and Italy (58.16), according to the latest report Sunday by Johns Hopkins University.
The U.K. currently has the world’s fourth highest death toll, while Spain and Italy (which have the sixth highest and eighth highest death tolls, respectively) were formerly Europe’s two countries worst hit by the outbreak.
Sweden’s latest case-fatality ratio (portion of deaths compared to total cases) was reported to be 7.1 percent. The figure is more than half the percentage reported in the U.K. (15.1 percent), half that of Italy and Belgium (each reporting 14.2 percent) and nearly half that of France (13.4 percent), according to Johns Hopkins University.
ALSO, Sweden’s seven-day rolling average of daily new deaths has been mostly declining since as far back as April 16, when the average was at 99. The average dropped to two on August 2, according to Worldometer.
Sweden’s death rate is much higher than the MOST COMPARABLE countries, the Scandinavian countries.
Norway’s death rate is 4.7 per 100k.
Swedish policy led to a direct 5210 extra deaths in a country of 10 million(about the same as Los Angeles County) because it chose to do nothing/very little, unlike Norway.
Its economy did the worst of the Scandinavian countries shrinking 5% this year and its unemployment is the worst of the Scandinavian countries at 9%.
Sweden is literally the least obese country in the West. All else being equal it should do a lot better than Italy and Spain. And Sweden should do WAY better than the UK. In the West only the USA/Canada are fatter than the UK.
Sweden with such low levels of obesity,diabetes,and heart disease should have among the lowest Covid-19 fatality rates in the world. Instead it is up there with the worst.