We fact checked Scott Morrison on COVID-19 deaths in Sweden and Australia. Here's what we found

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In an interview on Sky News, Prime Minister Scott Morrison claimed Sweden has seen 20 times the number of COVID-19 deaths than Australia. CoronaCheck digs into the numbers.

deaths. While Sweden's death count is much higher than Australia's, it is only seven times the number of deaths seen in Australia.of deaths when comparing the two nations, a comparison of theOn those figures, Sweden's rate of deaths per million people is 576.62 compared with Australia’s rate of 34.37. That means the Nordic nation has suffered a death rate more than 16 times that of Australia.

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“Victorian Liberal Party MP Bernie Finn has shared to Facebook a quote falsely attributed to Daniel Andrews.” Says a lot about his integrity

The percentage of deaths from all our coronavirus cases is 3.2% nationally. Sweden’s is 6.4%. Facts anyone can check.

UnQuietAust On the world stage he is taking credit for low infection rates and the economy. But in reality.......... In Australia he is AWOL until another LNP fundraiser.

Don’t tell me he bullshitted again

The real question from this, why does Craig Kelly still have a job? A vacuous conspiracist imbecile, wasting public funds.

He didn't say Shanghai Sam either until he was shown it was recorded & he did say it several times. A pathological liar or medically compromised? Either way he isn't fit for office nor should he trusted. auspol LiarFromTheShire sportsrorts

hes a known liar.

Facts = alternate facts = little white lies = lies = planned narrative for political benefit. auspol

What abc neglected to also add was while Sweden had 16x Australia deaths it now has heard immediately so when the virus comes back bigger and stronger which all virus’s do they will have immunity whereas Australians won’t leading to a much higher death rate from Irish scientist

What's a fact checker and how does a person become one?

Morrison is a Liar 🤥

Now do Hunter

Sweden's death count is much higher than Australia's, it is only seven times (NOT 20 TIMES) the number of deaths seen in Australia. scumo couldn't lie straight in bed.

What a longwinded start before ABC NEWS gets to any real information. Goodbye!

Deaths in Sweden was 20times higher before Daniel’s hotel fiasco killed hundreds of Victorians.

My taxes at work defundtheabc

Sweden is heavily reliant on exports to neighbours who decided to lockdown, therefore GDP dropped. Australia hasn’t yet tallied suicides, domestic abuse and depression caused by lockdowns. Also, Australia’s recovery will be longer coupled with massive debt hangover.

Not much happening in Sweden these days ...

Love a good fact check

Another triumph for ScottyFromMarketing - most of Sweden's deaths have been in Aged Cares homes because they failed to take the necessary precautions

And 90% of Australia's deaths are out of Victoria.......outside of Dandemic Dan's quarantine hotel disaster, quite an amazing result by the Federal Government.

Not even going to look at this. Your fact checks are bs. Fact check some of the crap coming out of Andrews mouth.

I fact checked the ABC AND found that they are completely biased and hate all conservatism....

The population of Australia is the same as Taiwan, and the land area of ​​Australia is dozens or even hundreds of times of Taiwan, but the result is completely different. Taiwan's COVID-19 virus prevention model is a template for the world

I fact checked the ABC. Apparently....... Easy as one-two-three 😃

Given that 90% of deaths are in one state, Sweden is twice the death rate of Vic. Nowhere near 20 times. NSW has had fairly similar policies to Sweden.

Here some freak facts. This is a plandemic . CDC revised its figures by 94%

People are so dumb to trust some 'fact' checkers. There is so much nuance, pre-suppositions, framing and natural bias inherent in any study/'facts'....

Fact-checking Scott Morrison should be taught in schools

Oh only 7 times more, not 20 times more. Well that's a good enough reason to follow Sweden. Oh and their economy is a little worse than ours right now. How about you start supporting whats working instead fighting against it

Number of deaths could reasonably be interpreted as count or as proportion of population. Lots of the COVID country comparisons have been measured as a proportion of population. He said “almost 20 times”, but it was actually 16 times? Was this intended to be a “gotcha” moment?

And this right here is why we're still doing the exact opposite of what Scotty is asking us to do. It's a trust thing - we don't trust Scott Morrison. auspolsocorrupt auspol

I'm please to be able to say (for the first time in a while) I agree with SCOMO. We definitely should NOT be following the Swedish model, with 16 times the death rate and an economy that has fared no better (or even worse).

Here are some facts 😡😡😡

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