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When can we make a call on Sweden?
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I have just realised why you thought the Swedes had gotten through the second wave. You are obviously unaware that the Swedish CDC count deaths differently to many other countries.
"COVID-19 deaths are reported by the Swedish government by the date on which the death occurred.
Since there is a lag between the time a person dies and the time the death is reported, the death counts for the most recent period are always incomplete. They are often most incomplete for the latest 2 to 5 days, but can be incomplete for 10 days or more. This undercount in recent days means that they often appear to be falling; but when this is later completed, data shows that more deaths were occurring during that period.
This means that for the last 10 days of data, death counts in Sweden must only be interpreted as incomplete measures of mortality."
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"In the data that we present on Our World in Data, which comes directly from the European CDC, deaths in Sweden are shown by date of death, while deaths in other countries are shown by date of report.
This matters because it takes a number of days until all deaths for a particular day are reported. In practice this means that Sweden might today only report 10 deaths for yesterday, but once reporting is complete the death count for that day might increase to 40.
The death counts for the last 10 days in Sweden should therefore always be interpreted as an incomplete count of the deaths that occurred in this period."
http://ourworldindata.org/covid-sweden-death-reporting
Hopefully this clears things up for you.