Sweden has much higher ethnic & cultural diversity than Norway & Finland, and hence more people passing through it's borders potentially bringing in new infecti

Sweden has much higher ethnic & cultural diversity than Norway & Finland, and hence more people passing through it's borders potentially bringing in new infections from abroad. It also has fewer hospital beds per population, and higher population density. All these factors and more need to be taken into account when doing country comparisons. We won't really know how much effect the difference in policies had until someone has done a proper causal analysis using some regression model or other econometric technique. I got the stats from here: https://www.indexmundi.com/factbook/compare/norway.sweden/demographics https://www.indexmundi.com/factbook/compare/norway.sweden/de...