[FreedomNotSafety]

"The statistics show the number of people in Sweden who have died with Covid-19. That's everyone who has died after testing positive for the virus; it doesn't mean that the virus itself was a cause of death for all these cases.

"Sweden gets this data because its system of social security numbers (personnummer) means that all deaths are registered in a centralised system. Then the Public Health Agency can check with regions (in Sweden it's the individual regions which are responsible for healthcare) which of these deaths were people with the coronavirus -- of course, this is only possible if the deceased people were tested for the virus.

"This is different from how other countries report their death tolls. Some countries such as France also include deaths from nursing homes, a change to their figures that was made on April 2nd. Other countries, including Spain, Italy and England, currently only include deaths that take place inside hospitals in the official tolls.

"It's currently hard to say which countries' death tolls give the most accurate picture, since this will also be influenced by factors such as testing rates."

For everyone who uses the "case fatality rat" to promote Chicken Freeper hysteria.

[FreedomNotSafety]

rat = rate

[DoughtyOne]

That’s it?

That’s your big gun?

Smile...

So this tells you that no comparisons can’t be made between
Sweden, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Norway,
Spain, or the U. K.?

That’s what I thought.

[norwaypinesavage]

"People who are especially at-risk due to factors such as old age or underlying conditions may not be admitted to intensive care if doctors judge that they would be unlikely to survive the treatment"

That's better known as a "Death Panel" for rationing treatments. Socialism always necessitates rationing for all government services.