Norway and Denmark had the same factors you’re pointing to, with a large influx of cases from Italy and Switzerland. But they shut down immediately to stop fur

Norway and Denmark had the same factors you’re pointing to, with a large influx of cases from Italy and Switzerland. But they shut down immediately to stop further spread. In Norway, things were spurred on even faster because a royal testing screwup in one of the biggest hospitals sent 30 people in quarantine. I think that event spooked everyone to take it seriously right away, along with some video conferences with doctors in Lombardy. Textbook case of reducing the exponent of an exponential function early for massive benefits, if you ask me. That’s a very simple explanation. I don’t think the truth is more fancy than that. Even a week or two is an eternity when the doubling time is 3 days, everyone being unprepared and all.