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Sweden was singled out as the worst on several points when the OECD recently released a high-profile report.
Now the organization is backing down, it has received the statistics in the back foot.
The worst to reduce the spread of infections, the worst to reduce IVA admissions, and the worst to limit mobility. In several categories, Sweden was singled out as the worst to deal with the pandemic this spring, according to a recent OECD report that attracted a lot of attention.
Among the 35 member countries of the OECD, Sweden stood out strongly negatively. For example, according to the report, Sweden has been the worst in reducing the r-number, that is, the figure that indicates to how many people a person infected with corona is estimated to transmit the infection. While Malta, which was the best, took eleven days to reduce the r-number below 1, Sweden took 58 days, according to OECD statistics.
Photo: Peter Wixtröm
Anders Tegnell and Johan Carlson from the Public Health Agency.
Will recalculate
Now the organization is forced to back down, after mixing the number of tests per 100,000 inhabitants.
Something that the OECD, which has a statistical base of member countries that forms the basis of several annual reports, discovered after SVT pointed out the error about the number r.
– The value was seven times higher. According to them, we were almost at the top when it comes to the amount of testing and that’s not true, Anders Björkman, professor of infectious diseases at the Karolinska Institutet, tells SVT.
Guillaume Dedet from the OECD states that they have received statistics on the hind leg.
“It is a miscalculation for Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden. We will update the report in the next few days,” he writes to SVT.
Photo: Björn Lindahl
Stefan Löfven and Lena Hallengren.
16th place according to another report
In another new poll, conducted by the Bloomberg news agency, Sweden finished 16th out of 53 in terms of overall ability to cope with the pandemic.
– It is terrifying and surprising that they missed these mistakes in fact. This shows a lack of knowledge about the covid epidemic, Anders Björkman, professor of infectious diseases at the Karolinska Institutet, tells SVT.
It is not yet clear whether or how the error will affect other findings in the report.
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