Sweden, which opted against any coronavirus lockdowns, has reported its highest death toll in the first six months of a year since 1869, Newsweek reports.
According to the country’s Statistics Office, between January and June, 51,405 people died. The country has a total population of 10.3 million, according to records.
The death toll is the highest reported for the first six months of a year in more than 150 years. In 1869, 55,431 people died amid a famine. At that time, the population was around 4.1 million, according to Newsweek.
The country’s death toll jumped 10% due to coronavirus, higher than the average of the past 5 years. In the month of April, the deaths were 40% higher than average.
Sweden reported more than 85,000 coronavirus cases and 5,802 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. The country’s case fatality rate is 6.8%, which is higher than Norway’s 2.6% rate and Denmark’s 3.8% rate.
Sweden’s Wednesday announcement on the death toll came the same day that doctors reported the first coronavirus case of a newborn baby in the country, according to healthcare watchdog Dagens Medicin.
Doctors think the baby may have become infected in the womb, but aren’t certain, according to Newsweek.
"Sadly this [the death toll in the first half of the year] is not surprising,” Martin McKee, professor of European public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U.K., told Newsweek. “For several decades Sweden has stood out as an exemplar of effective public health policies in many areas, so many of us have watched with surprise at how it has mishandled the COVID pandemic.”
He said Sweden “should admit they were wrong” about how to handle the virus.
"It is now very clear that early assumptions about the nature of this disease were mistaken,” McKee said. “That is understandable as we were all learning. What is most worrying is a seeming inability to learn from these mistakes. However, we should recall that Sweden was held up as an example by many elsewhere who opposed lock downs. They too should admit they were wrong."
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Yep.....didn't even realize Newsweek was still in business. This article is so misleading in so many ways.
1869 population of 4.1 million with 55,431 deaths
2020 Population of 10.3 Million and 51,405 deaths
See any problems with this? Why would you not say statistically 2020 was the "whatever highest of lowest?" Agenda you say?????
Then they point out that Sweden's case fatality rate is 6.8%, which is higher than Norway's (2.6) and Denmark's (3.8). But it was less than many other countries by far. Why don't the local whore hacks in politics and media here in the US use the same criterion to lay out their case? Could it be that it would show their lovely liberal shitholes have way higher per case fatality rates than many of the states (coincidentally red with R govs...hummmm) that have much lower case fatality rates? Instead they keep moving the goalposts.....deaths > hospitalizations > positive cases> to CYA.
Even when they say that there was a 10% of deaths for the same time period on the average of the previous 5-years. So obviously in the last 5-years there were instances of higher death totals and yes lower, than 2020.
On July 28th this year Sweden had 0 deaths and 77 new cases. Yea they are in deep crap these days. These "lockdown" disciples just can't stand that Sweden did this right and has a population with herd immunity now while other countries/people are still locked down and economies are hemorrhaging cash.
Notice how all these so called "experts" are in government organizations and have been receiving full pay the whole time as well. Maybe before they start spewing BS they should put their tenure or jobs on the line.
Sweden was the only group to really get this right......and I'm certain time will tell this.
Nice link that shows yearly deaths per 1,000 people and where it rates on the historical scale
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/SWE/sweden/death-rate
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According to the country’s Statistics Office, between January and June, 51,405 people died. The country has a total population of 10.3 million, according to records.
The death toll is the highest reported for the first six months of a year in more than 150 years. In 1869, 55,431 people died amid a famine. At that time, the population was around 4.1 million, according to Newsweek.
The country’s death toll jumped 10% due to coronavirus, higher than the average of the past 5 years. In the month of April, the deaths were 40% higher than average.
Sweden reported more than 85,000 coronavirus cases and 5,802 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. The country’s case fatality rate is 6.8%, which is higher than Norway’s 2.6% rate and Denmark’s 3.8% rate.
Sweden’s Wednesday announcement on the death toll came the same day that doctors reported the first coronavirus case of a newborn baby in the country, according to healthcare watchdog Dagens Medicin.
Doctors think the baby may have become infected in the womb, but aren’t certain, according to Newsweek.
"Sadly this [the death toll in the first half of the year] is not surprising,” Martin McKee, professor of European public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U.K., told Newsweek. “For several decades Sweden has stood out as an exemplar of effective public health policies in many areas, so many of us have watched with surprise at how it has mishandled the COVID pandemic.”
He said Sweden “should admit they were wrong” about how to handle the virus.
"It is now very clear that early assumptions about the nature of this disease were mistaken,” McKee said. “That is understandable as we were all learning. What is most worrying is a seeming inability to learn from these mistakes. However, we should recall that Sweden was held up as an example by many elsewhere who opposed lock downs. They too should admit they were wrong."
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Yep.....didn't even realize Newsweek was still in business. This article is so misleading in so many ways.
1869 population of 4.1 million with 55,431 deaths
2020 Population of 10.3 Million and 51,405 deaths
See any problems with this? Why would you not say statistically 2020 was the "whatever highest of lowest?" Agenda you say?????
Then they point out that Sweden's case fatality rate is 6.8%, which is higher than Norway's (2.6) and Denmark's (3.8). But it was less than many other countries by far. Why don't the local whore hacks in politics and media here in the US use the same criterion to lay out their case? Could it be that it would show their lovely liberal shitholes have way higher per case fatality rates than many of the states (coincidentally red with R govs...hummmm) that have much lower case fatality rates? Instead they keep moving the goalposts.....deaths > hospitalizations > positive cases> to CYA.
Even when they say that there was a 10% of deaths for the same time period on the average of the previous 5-years. So obviously in the last 5-years there were instances of higher death totals and yes lower, than 2020.
On July 28th this year Sweden had 0 deaths and 77 new cases. Yea they are in deep crap these days. These "lockdown" disciples just can't stand that Sweden did this right and has a population with herd immunity now while other countries/people are still locked down and economies are hemorrhaging cash.
Notice how all these so called "experts" are in government organizations and have been receiving full pay the whole time as well. Maybe before they start spewing BS they should put their tenure or jobs on the line.
Sweden was the only group to really get this right......and I'm certain time will tell this.
Nice link that shows yearly deaths per 1,000 people and where it rates on the historical scale
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/SWE/sweden/death-rate
Related Stories:
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