Sweden had an unusually low number of excess deaths between Jan 2019 and March 2020, much lower than its neighbours. That's very likely the reason it did "worse

Sweden had an unusually low number of excess deaths between Jan 2019 and March 2020, much lower than its neighbours. That's very likely the reason it did "worse" than e.g. Denmark - simply because it did "better" the previous years. Words in quotes because it's unclear they're actually doing anything different and waves of elderly deaths due to respiratory viruses seem rather random. https://www.aier.org/article/swedens-dry-tinder-accounts-for-many-covid-19-deaths/ https://www.aier.org/article/swedens-dry-tinder-accounts-for...