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CRITICAL: State epidemiologist Anders Tegnell thought the OECD report had to be “taken with a pinch of salt.” Now the organization admits that it is wrong. Photo: Pontus Orre
Sweden fared worse on several points in a new OECD crown report. Now the organization admits that they calculated incorrectly.
In a recent OECD report, Sweden was ranked the worst to deal with the corona pandemic on several points.
The Swedes did their worst to slow the spread of the infection, their worst to isolate the sick and the worst in class to reduce the r-number, when the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) compared 31 countries in Europe’s handling of the corona pandemic.
Now it turns out that the organization has calculated incorrectly.
This is an error in the OECD’s own statistics database, which was found when SVT reported errors in the number r.
The R number represents the reproductive number, which measures how many more a corona infection is transmitted.
The report indicates that European countries took an average of 34 days to get the r-number below 1, while for Sweden it took 58 days. By comparison, it took 27 days in Norway.
– We have made a mistake, says Guillaume Dedet from the organization’s health department.
DISCUSS: Sweden has chosen a different crown strategy than many other European countries. It has been the subject of debate. Photo: Odin Jæger
Calculation error for four countries
The mistake the OECD has made is to mix the number of tests performed per week and day for four countries, including Sweden, writes SVT, and has received the following comment from the organization.
– It is a calculation error for Germany, Holland, Spain and Sweden. We will update the report in the next few days, writes Guillaume Dedet of the OECD to SVT.
Swedish health specialists do not take incorrect calculations lightly.
– It is terrifying and sensational that they have overcome these factual errors. It testifies to the lack of knowledge about the corona epidemic, says the professor of infectious diseases at Karolinska Institutet, Anders Björkman, to SVT.
Second most positive report
Well-known Swedish state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell is among those who have been highly critical of the study. He believes that the weakness of the OECD in this context is that they focus mainly on economic issues and have not understood the complexity of the data material, he tells the Swedish broadcaster.
In another recent report, compiled by the Bloomberg news agency, Sweden was ranked 16 out of 53 in the pandemic management ranking, he writes Aftonbladet.
In this report, Sweden, like Japan and South Korea, stands out as a country where trust in the authorities is so great that there is no need for severe shutdowns. The news agency also writes that Sweden currently seems to cope better with the number two corona wave, writes Expressen.
