Why it is difficult to trust the Swedish Health Authority`s (FHM) reporting during the pandemic

Keith Begg
7 min readAug 11, 2020

In Sweden, we have grown accustomed to the Swedish Public Health Authority (FoHM) hastily producing reports, only to retract or amend them at record speed after their release. This scenario has played out on several occasions in relation to reports on daily mortality rates and herd-immunity calculations. However, the FoHMs latest report that;

“the closure or not of schools had no measurable direct impact on the number of laboratory confirmed cases in school-aged children in Finland or Sweden”.

when comparing schools in Finland (lockdown) and Sweden (open) is deliberately misleading and based on very poor scientific analysis.

The Swedish Public Health Authority (FoHM) has had to retract and amend several reports as a result of inflated claims of immunity and incorrect figures relating to daily mortality rates.

On July 7, the Swedish Public Health Agency (FoHM) published a report entitled. Covid-19 in schoolchildren — A comparison between Finland and Sweden.

In an article published by Gretchen Vogel in Science Mag on May 22, she opines that Sweden might have been the country to answer the burning questions about the effects of transmission of Covid-19 by school children and notes that “Sweden failed to collect any data.” (ref. 1). According to Vogel the Swedish authorities

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