Wednesday, September 9, 2020

Without Question: Top International Story Of The Week -- Perhaps The Year -- Sweden Has "Defeated" Coronavirus -- September 9, 2020

Sweden had no lock down; no mask mandate; and no mandatory return of affected individuals back to retirement homes. 

Graphics here





 

Deaths per million population (set search criteria to "yesterday" and "deaths / 1 million pop):

  • In a league of its own:
    • #1: San Marino: 1,237
  • Also-rans:
    • #2: Peru: 911
    • #3: Belgium: 854
  • The rest of the top ten:
    • #4: Andorra: 686
    • #5: Spain: 683
    • #6: UK: 612
    • #7: Chile: 610
    • #8: Bolivia: 603
    • #9: Ecuador: 601
    • #10: Brazil: 599
  • Not even making the top ten:
    • USA, #12, with 586 (and throw out NY, NJ which were outliers in the US, and we would drop much farther down the list; see below)
    • Sweden, #13, 2ith 577 deaths per million
    • Mexico, #14, 525

Now, let's do the international list but add US states:

  • New Jersey: 1,815
  • NYC: 1,702
  • Massachusetts: 1,326
  • Connecticut: 1,255
  • Louisiana: 1,101
  • Rhode Island: 1,000
  • Mississippi: 869
  • DC: 866
  • Arizona: 717
  • Michigan: 682
  • Illinois: 663
  • Maryland: 630
  • Delaware: 625
  • Pennsylvania: 616
  • Sweden: 577
  • Georgia (US): 572

Link here.

This was the problem the US had from the very beginning, from an April 16, 2020, posting:


AP COVID-19 data: fact-checked by Brian Williams, Rachel Madcow, and the NYT editorial board.
By the way, Brian Williams could claim he knew this all along, simply stringing his guest out -- he, the straight man; she, the comedienne.
Really Bad Math, Brian Williams

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