Thread by @DavidSteadson

Swedish Chief Epidemiologist Anders Tegnell has today publicly claimed the majority of Covid deaths in Sweden were in fact not caused by Covid.

Sweden has two registries of Covid deaths. One is from @Folkhalsomynd and records if a person died within 30 days of a positive test.

https://twitter.com/okuvad/status/1453712228562079748

This will overcount by including people who died from other causes unrelated to Covid, but will undercount by missing those who die outside the 30 day window.

This is the data reported internationally.

The second registry is actually the official one, from @socialstyrelsen

This count is based on death certificates and the officially recorded cause of death as determined by a doctor.

This will likely undercount, especially early in the pandemic, when doctors were unfamiliar with the disease.

It will also miss people who have died at home with no clear cause of death.

It won't, however, include "died with Covid, not from Covid" deaths, which the @Folkhalsomynd data may include.

So how do they compare?

As of October 25, 2021 @socialstyrelsen had recorded 14 404 deaths with Covid-19 as a cause of death. 94% of them had tested positive.

At the same date @Folkhalsomynd had reported 15017 deaths. Both counts will be revised up.

@socialstyrelsen generally takes a couple of months to finalise their statistics. @Folkhalsomynd takes a couple of weeks.

But there is a difference of only 613 deaths in the two tallies.

Anders Tegnell has, in effect, today, publicly called thousands of Swedish doctors either incompetent or criminal - signing death certificates with wrong information.

What does @lakarforbundet (The Swedish Medicial Association) think about this accusation?