> The last stats I saw showed Sweden experiencing 4x deaths per capita compared to its neighbors, which is a clue that eschewing lockdown does make a difference

> The last stats I saw showed Sweden experiencing 4x deaths per capita compared to its neighbors, which is a clue that eschewing lockdown does make a difference. The reason why some countries have significantly higher death rates from coronavirus: it permeating nursing homes. The countries that put in strict controls overall and maximally protected people in nursing homes have the lowest death rates. Of course, the death rates worldwide are under-reported, and overall, worldwide, on average, the death rate is expected to be double of what is reported. To get an idea of what the true death rate from coronavirus, you would also need to compare previous death rates in previous years--at the same time of year. There is more work to do on that, because you would ideally have projections for if an epidemic never happened this year.