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There's been some breaking news on the Swedish question.

So I thought I'd address that today.

Very brief podcast.

Again, going with published sources and no fringe stuff.

So interesting to look at the data and let's try and get a handle on the situation. going with published sources and no fringe stuff.

So interesting to look at the data and let's try and get a handle on the situation.

So the breaking news as it happens, New York Post and elsewhere, World Health Organization laws lockdown ignoring Sweden as a model for countries going forward.

Now, they're not exactly saying that they were completely correct all along, but as the lockdown, which has been going on for a few weeks and other countries has to end at

some point, they're suggesting Sweden's model is the way to go pretty much. So, you know,

there's ambiguous language in the

who announcement but still it's a pretty big move and maybe a surprise to many so let's look at

the Swedish question in a little more detail because the data has moved on a lot over the last week

or so so I'm just going to give a bit of context first that this current issue, the demographics, if you will.

So here's Portugal data, which is one of the few countries where you can get good all-cause mortality data.

And we can see 2020 here in the past few weeks versus 2019 in this case.

You see a spike certainly in all cause due to the issue in over 75s, but almost no spike

below 75 years old and below 65, certainly nothing. So there are certainly people who are younger who are affected and there are many factors for that.

But the vast majority are in the older demographic and people with comorbidities.

So again, to give an example, Boston has very detailed data.

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