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Deaths have doubled in 3 days so Sweden is growing exponentially too, it just started a little later than other countries so it's in the part of the curve that
by grey-area 7y ago
Deaths have doubled in 3 days so Sweden is growing exponentially too, it just started a little later than other countries so it's in the part of the curve that feels pretty innocuous.
It's quite remarkable how similar the trajectories are starting from around the 1st death (though of course later trajectories might differ markedly depending on the measures taken now).
The FT has some good charts of this:
https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest
- jaclaz 7y agoIMHO these are better (counting in cases/deaths per million inhabitants is much more comparable than absolute counts): http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/covid19/ http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/covid19/ Namely (Sweden): http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/covid19/#covid-eu-norm2 http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/covid19/#covid-eu-norm2 http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/covid19/#rates-nordic http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/covid19/#rates-nordic
- grey-area 7y agoThose show cases not deaths, I'm not sure that's very reliable as a measure - the testing varies dramatically, it will be tempting for governments to undertest and it's hard to get hold of tests now. Just to pick one example the US has shot up to top place by cases in the last few days mainly because they started seriously testing. Personally I prefer graphs of deaths (normalised for population would be fine I guess), starting from 1st death or similar rather than arbitrary offsets in date as the spread only begins from the first cases (usually undetected).