Sweden ends its experiment

[jon-nyc]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/long-a-holdout-from-covid-19-restrictions-sweden-ends-its-pandemic-experiment-11607261658

[George K]

On a deaths/100,000 population, the US isn't doing much better.

[jon-nyc]

It’s not. But I suspect Swedish citizens compare themselves to the more similar countries in Scandinavia rather than US, France, or Belgium.

[Doctor Phibes]

Presumably lower population density tends to be a good thing for avoiding Covid, and Scandinavia is lower than Western Europe/USA?

[George K]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Sweden ends its experiment:

lower population density tends to be a good thing for avoiding Covid

Good point. John Burns-Murdoch has been preaching for almost a year that (whatever) case/population is not an accurate representation of the pandemic.

[taiwan_girl]

It would be interesting to see a graph of population density vs. cases/deaths.

Obviously, there would be some extremes. Singapore has one of the highest population density, but low case/death. Taiwan is the same - high population density and low cases/deaths.

There are so many other factors that are tough to include and graph.