Op-Ed : The Sweden Myth | MedPage Today
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Mythe, mais la mortalité est devenue très faible.
One point in Sweden’s favor is that while new cases haven’t gone away (about 500 per day recently, up noticeably from a nadir in early September, and more than twice per capita than in the U.S. ), it has been reporting just one or two deaths most days since late July. That’s a (very crude) case fatality rate of 0.4%, versus about 1.75% in the U.S. on the same basis.
Reasons for the difference aren’t clear. Sweden’s testing policy focuses on symptomatic cases and contact tracing. While the latter is considerably more robust than in the U.S., thus increasing the number of asymptomatic cases diagnosed, it wouldn’t explain the fourfold discrepancy in case fatality. Perhaps Swedish healthcare is generally superior; or its COVID death toll is undercounted; or Americans are unhealthier overall ; or the COVID deniers’ favorite, the U.S. overcounts deaths. Data on excess deaths, however, indicate the lethality gap is real. Maybe someday we won’t need to guess at why.