David Steadson #NAFO 🇦🇺🇸🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺🌍 Profile picture
Entrepreneur. Epidemiologist. IT guy. Australian in Sweden and Ukraine. #plantpowered 🌱 #kyokushin 🥋 #longcovid (recovered)

Oct 1, 2020, 5 tweets

I only recently discovered the Swedish Palliative Care Registry and have started to compare it's data to Folkhälsomyndigheten, and there are some significant differences.

data.palliativregistret.se/utdata/report/…

FHM unfortunately doesn't provide breakdown of deaths by age by date, but they do provide cumulative totals by 10 year age groups, eg 70-79 yr olds.

The palliative care registry does the same, but unfortunately using a different range, eg 75-85 🤨

If I take FHM's reports of total deaths from 60yrs and up reported today, and subtract the same figure reported on Sept 1, I get 72 deaths so far registered in September

If I take the 65 and up age group from SPR (a smaller group) I get 103 deaths.

That's a big difference.

SPR though, includes "suspected" and "completed" infections -

"Med covid-19-infektion avses avlidna som hade en pågående, misstänkt eller genomgången infektion."

They note the "completed" group is very small, but that a CV19 infection has an impact, so they are included.

I'll look at this data further and compare to both FHM and Socialstyrelsen data to see if there is anything we can learn further.

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