"There have been a multitude of reports from other countries on how they fail to account for all deaths, let alone all deaths from the disease, for instance."
Look here[1] to see that Sweden is the only Nordic country with under-estimated deaths for this period.
Living in Sweden I must say I'm really tired of constantly hearing that other countries are just "cheating" by under-estimating their covid death-rates. The whole thing is seen as some type of bizarre competition.
When the supposed herd-immunity rate was re-calculated by the Swedish-resident statistician Tom Britton to possibly be around 40%[2] the news was widely discussed as though Swedes had won some sort of 'race' - one of my colleagues actually punched the air and said "I knew we'd be first!" (the actual rate of antibodies is around 7-10% in the worst-affected Stockholm area)
> The whole thing is seen as some type of bizarre competition.
Yes, it's somewhat ugly, but I feel that some confirmation bias is unavoidable. At this point, pretty much everybody has experienced substantial downsides of the epidemic (either restricted public life, or increased deaths around them), so it seems only natural to look for data implying that it was all worth it.
Look here[1] to see that Sweden is the only Nordic country with under-estimated deaths for this period.
Living in Sweden I must say I'm really tired of constantly hearing that other countries are just "cheating" by under-estimating their covid death-rates. The whole thing is seen as some type of bizarre competition.
When the supposed herd-immunity rate was re-calculated by the Swedish-resident statistician Tom Britton to possibly be around 40%[2] the news was widely discussed as though Swedes had won some sort of 'race' - one of my colleagues actually punched the air and said "I knew we'd be first!" (the actual rate of antibodies is around 7-10% in the worst-affected Stockholm area)
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...
[2] https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/coronaviruset/hoppfulla-teo...