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Congrats to Sweden for "only" having 2,000 dead. Tell that to the over 56,000 dead Americans despite lockdown. Also, Sweden is under de facto lockdown even if
by jinushaun 6y ago
Congrats to Sweden for "only" having 2,000 dead. Tell that to the over 56,000 dead Americans despite lockdown.
Also, Sweden is under de facto lockdown even if they don't want to call it that.
- erikig 6y agoThat said, it is important to note that Sweden has one of the highest death rates in the world. Almost 40% higher than the US and at least 200-300% that of its neighbors. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-covid-deaths-per-million?tab=chart&time=2020-01-31..2020-04-10&country=CHN+DNK+FIN+DEU+NOR+SWE+USA https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-covid-deaths-per-mi... If the US had the same death rate, the total deaths would be closer to 80,000
- piva00 6y agoPopulation size is only an upper bound limit for disease spread, it doesn't tell anything else so using per capita inference to extrapolate is pretty flawed.