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Because they excluded the other Nordic countries, who all look much better than Sweden: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=tru
by HarryHirsch 6y ago
Because they excluded the other Nordic countries, who all look much better than Sweden: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-03-01..latest&country=FIN~SWE~NOR~DNK®ion=World&deathsMetric=true&interval=smoothed&perCapita=true&smoothing=7&pickerMetric=total_cases&pickerSort=desc https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToS...
Especially if you include the period around April, which the grandparent poster omitted.
- johndevor 6y agoAre they better off simply because they are colder climates?
- HarryHirsch 6y agoThe climates of Oslo and Stockholm are very similar. Helsinki is a few degrees (not that much) less, so you would expect higher transmission, but it's not what we see.
- ta988 6y agoThanks, I totally missed those points.