"Sweden had restrictions, and still had almost 20 times the deaths of their neighbours."Given the median age of people dying from Covid is at, or in excess of, average life expectancy, when it comes to comparing deaths, measure that counts is
excess deaths.And, on that relevant measure, Finland is running at an excess deaths all the way through 2020:
View attachment 2502764...while Sweden started the first months of the year with a deficit in excess deaths, then there was the Covid spike, but since then the country is back into a deficit of excess deaths:
View attachment 2502773If you perform a numerical integration to derive the respective areas under those two curves (the summation of the red areas less the summation of the blue areas), you will find that Finland's excess death figure is around 2,800 excess deaths while for Sweden it is currently around 3,280.
And of course, it needs to be borne in mind that Sweden's population of 10.3m is double that of Finland 5.5m , so there's that that needs to be considered.
It means that
Sweden's excess deaths per capita is 320 per million head of population, which is actually better than
Finland's 510 excess deaths per head of population.
So the difference in Sweden's performance and its neighbour Finland, is not nearly as adversely stark as it appears, when viewed on the appropriate measure.
In fact, Sweden is performing better.
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