Published January 24, 2022 at 1:39 pm
Domestic. The day after Fria Tider revealed that the Swedish Public Health Agency uses a statistical ploy to hide the spread of infection among vaccinated people, the agency suddenly began to report the correct figures at its press conferences. But when Fria Tider calls the authority on Monday, we are refused to speak to anyone in charge, and the authority can not answer why it changed the accounting method without explanation.
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Fria Tider was able to reveal on Wednesday that the Swedish Public Health Agency presented the statistics on the spread of infection in society in a misleading way.
Instead of openly reporting the proportion of those infected during the past week who have been vaccinated and unvaccinated, the Swedish Public Health Agency has presented a so-called “rolling average” for the past three weeks.
In this way, the authority has managed to hide the fact that the spread of infection among vaccinated people has increased rapidly and become so large that the proportion of infected people during week 1 this year was greater among vaccinated people than among unvaccinated people. In week 1, 1,301 cases of covid-19 per 100,000 vaccinated and 1,247 cases per 100,000 unvaccinated were reported.
However, when the Swedish Public Health Agency held a press conference on 13 January, those figures were not reported. Instead, Anders Tegnell showed a graph with a rolling average that gave the impression that vaccinated people were infected to a lesser extent than unvaccinated & nbsp; – & nbsp; the exact opposite of what it was like in reality.
The day after Fria Tider revealed that the statistics were presented in a misleading way, it was time for the next press conference with the Swedish Public Health Agency. Then the authority had suddenly stopped using the rolling average, which they had previously used at their press conferences and in their weekly reports. Instead, for the first time, a chart of actual developments was shown week by week.
– If we then look at the difference between vaccinated and unvaccinated, there is no difference anymore, but there are very, very similar curves. It is about as high a risk as vaccinated and unvaccinated to be infected with covid-19, commented Sara Byfors from the Public Health Agency the diagram.
– But the vaccine still protects very well against serious illness and death in covid-19, she added .
Sara Byfors did not say anything about the authority suddenly changing its accounting method or why. She also did not explain that the figures that were now reported were not comparable to those presented at previous press conferences.
However, the change made is apparent both from the values in the graph and from a comparison of the agency's weekly reports for week 1 and week 2, respectively. The diagram for week 1 is described as follows in the report:
“Figure 1B. in recent weeks over the number of confirmed cases per 100,000 inhabitants divided into unvaccinated and vaccinated, among persons 12 years and older, from week 25 2021 up to and including the current report week. “
While the corresponding diagram in the report for week 2 is described like this:
“Figure 1B. Number of confirmed unvaccinated cases per 100,000 unvaccinated residents and number of confirmed vaccinated cases per 100,000 vaccinated residents among persons 12 years and older, from week 25 2021 up to and including the current reporting week.”
The rolling the mean value has thus suddenly disappeared in the report for week 2, but neither in the report does the Swedish Public Health Agency explain that the way in which the figures are reported has changed.
When Fria Tider called the Public Health Agency and asked why they changed the accounting principle without telling about the change, however, it was the lid on from the authority's press service.
– You can send your questions by e-mail, says Anna Wetterqvist, press secretary, to Fria Tider.
You also said that on Wednesday, when I asked critical questions about the fact that you used a rolling average. The next day you stopped using the rolling average, but no one answered my email.
– Yes, I see it. But you get to send a new email with your new questions and those responsible can look at it. I can not answer anything about this.
Who is responsible then? And can you talk to them?
– You can send an email and I'll look at it.
I ask questions about how you report statistics and apparently someone at you reads my emails and changes the way you report your statistics. I have questions about that and then you must be able to offer that I find out who that person is? You are still a public authority.
– As I said, send an email and I will look into it.