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They are not. Cases are up slightly in the past few weeks, but on par with where they were in July (after which they saw a decline). You have to be extrapolatin
by irq11 6y ago
They are not. Cases are up slightly in the past few weeks, but on par with where they were in July (after
which they saw a decline). You have to be extrapolating wildly to call this a rapid increase.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1102193/coronavirus-cases-development-in-sweden/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1102193/coronavirus-case...
- morsch 6y agoSweden started July with a bit more than double their current cases, and ended it with a bit less than half. Four weeks ago was as low as it ever got in Sweden, and since then it has risen steadily, up to more than double what it was. It's also 30% higher than the last local maximum, in the middle of August. Here's a better source, which also isn't out of date by 6 days: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?yScale=log&zoomToSelection=true&minPopulationFilter=1000000&time=2020-06-01..latest&country=FRA~DEU~USA~SWE~ESP®ion=World&casesMetric=true&interval=smoothed&hideControls=true&perCapita=true&smoothing=7&pickerMetric=location&pickerSort=asc https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?yScale=...
- BurningFrog 6y agoI think deaths is the real metric to follow, and this curve shows the development I described: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&minPopulationFilter=1000000&time=2020-02-19..latest&country=FRA~DEU~USA~SWE~ESP®ion=World&deathsMetric=true&interval=smoothed&hideControls=true&perCapita=true&smoothing=7&pickerMetric=location&pickerSort=asc https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToS...
- morsch 6y agoThat's not unreasonable, though you referred to cases and not deaths in your original post. Deaths lag a couple of weeks behind cases, so maybe the local minimum in deaths in Sweden corresponds to the local minimum in cases 4 weeks ago. But maybe not!
- BurningFrog 6y agoYeah, I did confuse the discourse there... My problem with counting cases is that it's heavily dependent on how much testing is done, while deaths are always count.
- irq11 6y ago5 days later: Deaths in Sweden continue to fall, per your own source.