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