I live in Sweden now, last 3 years, so I don’t get much exposure now to American media. And I don’t speak Swedish, so I don’t read or watch their news channels either. But there are plenty of serious Swedish data nerds and whatnot, writing in english. Tommy Lennhamn is a constant source of good analysis. His site here:

https://softwaredevelopmentperestroika.wordpress.com

Notice Swedish ICU occupancy via covid for 2020 and 2021 (the middle graph). The sum of the figures for weekly Swedish ICU occupancy from covid are approximately 5000 patients total, the same in each year, 2020 (blue) and 2021 (orange):

https://softwaredevelopmentperestroika.wordpress.com/2022/01/01/sweden-covid-variants-of-concern/

So is that accurate? I eyeballed the Swedish Covid ICU graph and see about 5000 covid ICU patients in each year, 2020 and 2021. But, I’m eyeballing weekly ICU occupancy figures, and some patients are in hospital less than a week and some more than a week. So what are the actual number of covid patients in ICU in 2020 and 2021?

The author of this website cites official data:

(Covid) Cases ICUs Dead

Statistikdatum 2020 454758 4178.0 9817.0 2021 882235 4075.0 5494.0

According to this my rough estimate was pretty close. Actual Swedish ICU covid patient totals are 4178 in 2020 and 4075 in 2021.

This is in a country of 11,000,000 people.

Covid deaths are different but all-cause deaths in Sweden are normal and near all time low: https://softwaredevelopmentperestroika.wordpress.com/2022/01/03/sweden-all-cause-expected-vs-observed-deaths-per-age-grp-total-incl-dec-21/ https://softwaredevelopmentperestroika.wordpress.com/2021/01/15/final-report-on-swedish-mortality-2020-anno-covid/ Now I’m wondering about hospitalization and ICU for “all respiratory diseases”. Recently I saw a graph of annual hospitalization and death from diseases of the respiratory system, absolute numbers in Germany since 1980.

Back to Sweden:

(Covid) Cases ICUs Dead

Statistikdatum 2020 454758 4178.0 9817.0 2021 882235 4075.0 5494.0

4000 patients in ICU per year are the cause of understaffed hospitals in a country of 11 million? 11 million people should be injected with exotic pharma products because 4000 people are in ICU with respiratory illness? How many of those 4000 would be in ICU anyway, if SARS-Cov-2 had never existed? Other viral respiratory contagions would not have been present? ICU admissions for severe respiratory disease would not have occurred at a similar rate?

more: https://whileican.substack.com/p/treat-the-sick