A Tale of Two Pandemics

Mortality for 20-39yo in Sweden, 1900-22 vs. 2000-22

So, now I’m on Elon Musk’s blue bird range, mainly in anticipation of the release of ‘Sound of Freedom’ release via Twitter later this summer.

Also because I want to continue reading someone else’s tweets, such as the one below by Stefan Kraus, Data Scientist at the U of Applied Sciences Mannheim, Germany:

Source.

The top illustration provides mortality data from Sweden for the age cohort 20-39yo from 1900-22, which includes the ‘Spanish Flu’ pandemic.

The bottom illustration gives the same data for 2000-22.

See if you can spot the difference between these two ‘pandemics’.

Do share widely, if you’re so inclined.