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He was mentioning the same flu season I did [1].

You're right though, I think something different was counted. In one case it was covid-19 deaths vs excess mortality. A sister comment rectified it, fortunately. It took this source [2] that references the excess mortality of the Dutch worst flu season and covid-19.

Then you get:

> De oversterfte in week 10 tot en met 19 van de COVID-19 epidemie was 9.768

> De oversterfte tijdens de 18 weken griepepidemie werd geschat op 9.444

(I think you can gather which is which but you could use Google Translate to be 100% sure)

So COVID-19 is actually higher and in 10 weeks rather than 18 weeks. And also, now that we're comparing a bit more apples to apples (The Netherlands), then we have to take into account that an "intelligent lockdown" (whatever that means) has taken place.

We had less death per 1 million than the Swedish as we were on 6132 at the time of this comment with covid related deaths.

So in conclusion, I made a few subtle errors that ultimately really add up. I wish I could still edit my top comment, I am happy I could already admit one error I made (that Sweden wasn't 100% roaming free), but using different units of measurement (covid related deaths vs excess mortality was another one).

[1] In Dutch, unfortunately: https://www.rivm.nl/monitoring-sterftecijfers-nederland

[2] https://www.rivm.nl/monitoring-sterftecijfers-nederland



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