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| Sweden Sees Big Jump In New Cases And Corrects Multiplier Of Unseen Cases |
| 2020-04-23 |
| Hot Air The Swedish reporting of new cases has been extremely variable from day to day. If you look at historic charts of the reporting, you can see small plateaus where reporting would drop off for the weekends. That has made it harder to trust the day to day variation because while the numbers tended to look good on the weekend and even on Monday, there was often a surge midweek as those declines were filled in. In any case, earlier this week Sweden’s public health officials were saying it looked to them as if Sweden had flattened the curve: But the optimism was apparently misplaced. Tuesday the death toll jumped by 185, the highest total in a single day, and Wednesday saw the second highest jump with 172 more deaths. The number of deaths increased by 84 today bringing the total to 2,021. That’s significantly higher than any of its neighbors. The number of deaths in Norway (which has about half of Sweden’s population) stands at 191. In Denmark (a bit more than half Sweden’s population), the figure is 394. Yesterday, Sweden’s Public Health officials retracted a study which claimed that for every confirmed case in the country, there were another 999 people who had the virus but didn’t know it. As Allahpundit pointed out even before the retraction, the "multiplier" in that study was obviously wrong. Why? Because there were 15,322 confirmed cases at the time. Multiply that number by 999 and you have over 15 million cases. The population of Sweden is just a little over 10 million people. Today officials corrected the record and said the actual multiplier was much lower I wonder how they got these numbers: I Ching, Ouija board, casting the runes? It's difficult to know what's going on when you're dealing with superstition-ridden savages. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #14 Ripples Yeah, the daily data is noisy. I wouldn't read too much into it. And not being a 'journalist', I won't freak out that the death toll is *still* rising. Oh Noes! |
| Posted by: SteveS 2020-04-23 20:08 |
| #13 That looks like the death rate is going down... Ripples |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-04-23 19:11 |
| #12 Unless I'm reading this wrong, the deltas are Tuesday +185 Wednesday +172 today +84 That looks like the death rate is going down... |
| Posted by: SteveS 2020-04-23 19:04 |
| #11 Keep their mosques open and full. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2020-04-23 17:20 |
| #10 That few? |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2020-04-23 16:52 |
| #9 #4 You mean New Yawk has 3 million savages? |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2020-04-23 16:34 |
| #8 And China & India get along soooo well. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2020-04-23 16:33 |
| #7 India suspends coronavirus antibody tests after questions over reliability Chinese tests. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-04-23 16:26 |
| #6 Swedes run any antibody tests? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-04-23 16:19 |
| #5 And that, if true, applies to Sweeden because Someone started counting in the 'no-go' zones of immigrant/colonist/refugee ghettos? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-04-23 16:07 |
| #4 It's difficult to know what's going on when you're dealing with superstition-ridden savages. Nearly 3 million New Yorkers have had coronavirus, antibody study suggests |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-04-23 16:04 |
| #3 And that, if true, applies to Sweeden because? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-04-23 15:51 |
| #2 It's difficult to know what's going on when you're dealing with superstition-ridden savages. Nearly 3 million New Yorkers have had coronavirus, antibody study suggests |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-04-23 15:40 |
| #1 Probably the same formula they used when calculating how much iron ore to sell the Third Reich. Morally superior beings that they are. |
| Posted by: Matt 2020-04-23 15:02 |