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2023-05-04 16:25:20 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

Sweden did not have lowest excess death in world. Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Korea, Iceland have lower or similar excess deaths. No evidence causally links Swedish policies to outcome. There are many other variables. Same chart source as original tweet: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-excess-mortality-p-scores-projected-baseline?tab=chart&facet=none&country=SWE~AUS~FIN~ISL~JPN~NOR~NZL~KOR

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• Sweden did not have lowest excess death in world. Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Korea, Iceland have lower or similar excess deaths. No evidence causally links Swedish policies to outcome. There are many other variables. Same chart source as original tweet: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-excess-mortality-p-scores-projected-baseline?tab=chart&facet=none&country=SWE~AUS~FIN~ISL~JPN~NOR~NZL~KOR