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The Swedish professor and epidemiologist highlights three decisive factors as to why there are so many more deaths from corona in Sweden than in neighboring countries.
In Sweden, almost 8,000 deaths per crown have been recorded. In Norway, Denmark, and Finland, there are 400, 1000, and 500 deaths related to coronary heart disease, respectively.
Karolinska Institutet professor and epidemiologist Jonas Ludvigsson says in a video interview with Expressen that there are three explanations for why there are more corona deaths in Sweden than in neighboring Norway, Denmark and Finland.
The three explanations are Stockholm, the Alps, and immigration.
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The first theory is that neither Norway, Denmark, nor Finland have a city the size of Stockholm. The city with almost one million inhabitants has a high population density compared to the other Nordic cities.
– I would say that the main problem with the Swedish death statistics is Stockholm, Ludvigsson tells Expressen.
In the Swedish capital, there are around 100,000 registered cases and 3,000 deaths. It is especially nursing homes that are most affected in the Swedish capital, something for which the Swedish authorities have criticized themselves.
– My impression is that the situation has not been so catastrophic in many nursing homes outside the Stockholm region, he says.
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State epidemiologist Anders Tegnell has also highlighted population density as a possible explanation for Norway emerging from the pandemic better than Sweden. He did so at a press conference in early December. Norway and Finland have a population density of 14 and 16 inhabitants per square kilometer, respectively, while Sweden has 24.
Controversial theory
The other explanation put forward by Professor Ludvigsson is that Sweden has a higher proportion of immigrants than the other neighboring Nordic countries. When Swedish state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell stated earlier this fall that immigration was a factor in the country that was hit so hard, he received strong criticism for the statement.
– The pandemic took off in Sweden in a different way than in our neighboring countries. We had a great broadcast in Stockholm at first, which was much more similar to the broadcast you saw in London, Amsterdam and Brussels, which in many ways is more similar to Sweden than our neighboring countries. Stockholm and these other cities have large populations from other countries, which is important because the spread is greater and faster among these populations, Tegnell said in an interview with the British magazine New Statesman in October, according to NTB.
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– Plays a role
However, Ludvigsson also points to the large proportion of immigrants from Sweden.
– Plays a role. Partly because if you have difficulty with Swedish, it is difficult to understand the information that is sent. Much of the information received was basically in Swedish. It works as long as you watch Swedish TV, listen to Swedish radio, and read Swedish newspapers, he says.
– If you don’t, it is a bit more difficult to get that information. It is also the case that certain groups may have other living conditions, living together from generation to generation, so it is not so easy to let the grandmother, grandmother or grandfather live separately from the rest of the family, Ludvigsson tells Expressen.
NTB writes that the proportion of the population of foreign origin according to the Swedish definition (born abroad or born in the country with two immigrant parents) is about a third in both Stockholm and Oslo. The news agency refers to statistics from the Swedish statistical agency Statistics Sweden and Norwegian Statistics Norway.
Third explanation
The third point that Ludvigsson points to as a major factor in the current corona death statistics is that the returning ski tourists were not quarantined after finishing their Alpine holidays at the start of the pandemic.
Here in Norway, too, it was primarily ski tourists who first brought the corona infection to the country. As recently as March 6, Tegnell stated that returned Swedes who came from so-called risk areas did not need to be quarantined. It happened just a week before Norway introduced a total decline across the country.
Nettavisen was unable to obtain an interview with Ludvigsson on Friday.
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