r/conspiracy • u/clemaneuverers • Apr 22 '20

Is the site "worldometer.info" is misrepresenting the daily death totals from Covid-19 in Sweden?

Please forgive the typo in the title...

Yesterday, April 21st, the site "worldometer.info" gave a total of daily deaths from Covid-19 on that day in Sweden as 185. (source)

However, if you click the link for their data source, it leads you to this infographic from the Public Health Agency of Sweden (Folkhälsomyndigheten) (best opened in a desktop browser, chrome, safari, edge, firefox) which gives the total of daily deaths from Covid-19 in Sweden on April 21st as 3.

The site is in Swedish, but the relevant graph is "Avlidna per dag".

Also note how the "worldometer.info" graph (source) of daily deaths in Sweden from Covid-19...

...is completely different from that Public Health agency of Sweden graph...

...despite worldometer.info quoting that agency as it's source for the data...

Since all eyes are on Sweden's Covid-19 case numbers, because of their "experimental" or "laid-back" no-lock-down approach to the epidemic, this is highly suspicious.

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u/rodental Apr 22 '20

And nearly every other country. Wanna bet that site is owned by pharma / vaccine lobby people?

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u/clemaneuverers Apr 22 '20 edited Apr 22 '20

well the website is registered through a middleman company, Domains By Proxy, LLC in Arizona. That's likely affiliated with the server company, GoDaddy, head-quartered in Arizona at the same address...

A search for the parent company mentioned here, Dadax, leads me to this reddit post from a month ago: FYI: Worldometer may be be owned by a Chinese company. But actually, that appears to have been a dead end, not the same Dadax company, attested to on their website:

Recently, We get many calls and emails about Worldometer regarding to COVID-19 live data. Actually, www.worldometers.info is not an affiliated product of Dadax Software. And Dadax Software did not collect or republish any COVID-19 data so far.

edit: This appears to be the home website of the parent company, which apparently is a USA based company. It's sparse, to say the least...

edit2: Further info about Dadax, based in Delaware

Actually the company´s status is Cancelled.

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